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Nath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Australians buy on average 56 new garments a year or 14.8kg of textiles.

Excuse me what?! Does the average Australian buy an item of clothing more than once a week?

I doubt our family of four between us would purchase 56 items of clothing in a year. Maybe in the 40’s (10ish items each)?

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hitmyspot@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Maybe it’s socks.

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yimby@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Clearly the statistics include fast fashion georg

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CoderKat@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Maybe that is a household figure or something? Or maybe it’s actually the total across the entire country divided by the population, which would include many pieces of clothing companies buy, not individuals?

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Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Seriously, I doubt I’ve bought 56 new garments over the last decade. If you include the clothes that I already owned as of 10 years ago, I have probably owned less than 3 years worth of garments over the last decade. It’s not that I couldn’t afford it, it’s just…I don’t know why I would throw away perfectly good clothes?

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