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Wardrobes across the country are heaving with clothes as Australians purchase more new and secondhand items than ever before.
About 1.5bn items of new clothing were bought nationally last year – equivalent to 55 new garments per person – a report by Seamless, Australia’s clothing stewardship scheme, found.