According to the article Australians are the worst in the world for clothing waste, on average buying 56 clothing items per person per year. That is fucking insane. I would say on average I buy maybe two clothing items per year. In my poverty time there were many years where that number was zero.

Does anyone have worldwide data on these stats?

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fucken hell. Does that include things bought second hand? Literally the only new things i buy these days are underwear / bras and socks.

[–] essell@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Where as the only things I buy second hand are bras and socks

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago

Hope you're not wearing those bras, they go bad and it's terrible support.

Depending on the size, wonderful to repurpose as rat hammocks, light-hearted siege engines or yarmulkes though

[–] CrayonMaster@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Maybe it's counting each individual sock as a clothing item? Like so a 6 pack counts as 12 items? Even then though it breaks my brain to read.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This could potentially be made another EU Citizens Initiative.

[–] tinycarnivoroussheep@possumpat.io 1 points 2 months ago

If food waste is a concern, I wonder if US-style leftover culture will spread, except I don't know how that might impact disposable container consumption.