Recent research found that approximately 20 per cent of Australians tossed clothing away after wearing it just once.
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The findings were released earlier this month by market research company YouGov Omnibus.
But we wanted to put this to our readers so in a poll we asked: Have you ever thrown clothing away after wearing it once?
See the results of the poll below:
The research also revealed that 75 per cent of us threw at least one item of clothing in the bin in the past year.
It gets worse the younger you are, with a nearly 40 per cent of millennials buying half of the clothing they own in the past 12 months.
More statistics about clothing waste: