Page 1738 - Week 06 - Tuesday, 7 June 2022

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The Assembly voted—

Ayes 15		Noes 7
Mr Barr	Mr Gentleman		Mr Cain
Ms Berry	Ms Orr		Mr Hanson
Mr Braddock	Dr Paterson		Mrs Kikkert
Ms Burch	Mr Pettersson		Ms Lawder
Ms Cheyne	Mr Rattenbury		Ms Lee
Ms Clay	Mr Steel		Mr Milligan
Ms Davidson	Ms Stephen-Smith		Mr Parton
Mr Davis

Question resolved in the affirmative.

Waste—textiles

MS ORR (Yerrabi) (3.17): I move:

That this Assembly:

(1) notes:

(a) Australia is the second highest consumer of textiles per person in the world;

(b) Australians on average acquire 27 kilograms of new clothing per person and discard around 23 kilograms of clothing to landfill each year;

(d) national product stewardship initiatives include a focus on textile waste; and

(e) creating a circular economy provides significant opportunity to drive innovation, better design, create new jobs, and recover valuable resources going to landfill; and

(2) calls on the ACT government to:

(a) consult with the local textile sector and interested community members as part of consultation on the upcoming draft circular economy plan to identify opportunities to improve textile stewardship in the ACT, including consideration of the following:

(i) ways to re-use textiles such as clothes swaps;

(ii) ways to re-purpose textiles such as upcycling into something else;

(iii) ways to recycle textiles that cannot be re-used or re-purposed;

(iv) the benefits of establishing a textiles hub in the ACT to support local designers, crafts people, and industry to realise circular economy opportunities as well as educate the broader community on circular economy possibilities; and

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