A staggering 62 per cent of the clothes we buy in Australia have some form of synthetics in them. With the rise of fast fashion the ubiquity of plastics will only worsen over time.Dr Tamzin Rollason is a lecturer at RMIT's School of Fashion and Textiles who argues we need to rethink not just consumer behaviour but the life cycle of clothes from start to finish.
A staggering 62 per cent of the clothes we buy in Australia have some form of synthetics in them. With the rise of fast fashion the ubiquity of plastics will only worsen over time. Dr Tamzin Rollason is a lecturer at RMIT's School of Fashion and Textiles who argues we need to rethink not just consumer behaviour but the life cycle of clothes from start to finish.