Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has put the local fashion industry on notice when it comes to the 210,000 tonnes of clothing and textiles that end up in Australian landfill every year.

Ms Plibersek delivered a call to arms for fashion brands to rethink volume and speed of manufacturing, noting that to make just one T-shirt requires 2700 litres of water (more than one person would drink in three years) and six kilograms of carbon.