Bernadette Casey: Textile industry is the third biggest carbon emitter behind agriculture and oil/gas

Alongside oil, gas and agriculture, the textile industry is one of the biggest carbon-emitters.Annually 220,000 tonnes of used clothing and the like enters landfills.New Zealand company Usedfully is trying to change that. They have sent recommendations to the Government and a hui date is set down for September.Usedfully co-founder Bernadette Casey says nothing really shocked her from their reports on landfill data."[Textiles] are quite low volume but what wasn't understood was the impacts, so while it might be low in volume it's extremely high in embedded carbon."LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.