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Lee Mattocks, Senior Lecturer, Fashion, Knitwear and Textile design, Nottingham Trent University

Treasure the emotional connections to the clothes you have and style could be a whole lot more sustainable

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With January sales around the corner, another flood of unwanted clothes risks drowning our wardrobes and the planet.

The average person now discards around 16kg of textile waste annually and a mountain of fabric equivalent to thousands of landfills accumulates each year.

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