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Encouraging results from cotton-waste soil trial

25/07/2022

A 12-month trial on a cotton farm in Queensland has shown it is possible to divert large amounts of cotton textile waste from landfill at end of life by returning it to cotton fields. The trial showed there was no harm to soil health or cotton yields. There could even be benefits to soil health, as well as a scalable solution to the global problem of textile waste.

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