Clothes Swaps

Clothes Swaps are a simple way to refresh your wardrobe, reduce textile waste and give good-quality clothing a second life.

At a City of Swan Clothes Swap, you can bring clean, good-quality clothes you no longer wear and swap them for something new to you. It is an easy, practical way to take part in full circle fashion and keep clothing in use for longer.

Australia buys and throws away a lot of clothing. On average, each Australian consumes around 55 items of new clothing each year and sends around 200,000 tonnes of clothing to landfill each year. Australia is also one of the highest textile consumers per person in the world.

In Western Australia, an estimated 2.6 million tonnes of waste went to landfill in 2022 to 2023, showing why practical reuse actions matter at a local level.

Clothes Swaps help respond to this by keeping wearable clothing in circulation. When clothes stay in use longer, fewer textiles go to landfill and fewer new items need to be bought. That is the idea behind full circle fashion.