About Seamless & the Circular Take-Back Scheme

Australia faces a mounting textile waste crisis, with over 200,000 tonnes of clothing ending up in landfill every year—including enormous volumes of corporate and industrial uniforms. That’s where Seamless comes in.

Seamless is Australia’s first National Clothing Product Stewardship Scheme, backed by industry and government to tackle fashion and textile waste at scale. Funded by the Australian Government’s Circular Economy Ministerial Advisory Group, Seamless supports bold projects that rethink the way clothing is made, used, and disposed of—keeping textiles in use and out of landfill.

Circular Take-Back Scheme for Industrial Safety Workwear

As part of this national effort, Assembled Threads is proud to partner with Blackwoods and Textile Recyclers Group on the Circular Take-Back Scheme for Industrial Safety Workwear—one of only seven initiatives funded nationally through the Seamless Circular Clothing Textiles Fund.

Together, we’re creating a system to:

  • Collect obsolete and surplus workwear from warehouses across Australia

  • Sort, debrand and process it responsibly

  • Rehome high-quality items to charities, First Nations organisations, and social enterprises via our new platform, Retread

  • Recycle end-of-life textiles into new raw materials through textile-to-textile recycling, with a focus on zero landfill

Why It Matters

This isn’t just waste diversion. It’s systems change.
By designing reuse and recycling into the industrial workwear supply chain, this project:

  • Reduces textile waste and carbon emissions

  • Creates inclusive, local jobs

  • Demonstrates scalable, measurable circularity in action

It’s a new model of industry-led impact, and we’re just getting started.