Wool dumped in landfill as cost of living drives demand and price down
The wool market has dropped 20 per cent from last year. Brokers say they are dumping low-value wool into landfill. Growers are urged to keep producing wool despite the gloomy outlook.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-06/wool-market-in-the-dumps-as-price-plummets/102511900Open linkView original on aussie.zone
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They should build a big monolith out of all the excess bales and turn it into a tourist attraction. You could call it :- ::: spoiler spoiler Wooluru! :::
Or you flush it down the toilet and call it
::: spoiler spoiler Woolinmaloo :::
I thought that place was called Ayers Rock? Turns out, all a ruse.
Yarn bomb the Big Merino with it.
Couldn’t they make some money by selling it overseas where it can be processed for cheap?
They are already doing that and "Fast Fashion" is also going to the landfill.
This way we save some extra steps