More than a quarter of Australians will get a Christmas present they'll never use or wear. It's part of a bigger waste problem around the festive season.
Some things are part of the quintessential Australian Christmas experience: driving around the streets to look at dazzling Christmas lights, gobbling up a kilo of prawns, and filling our loved one's stockings up to the brim with gifts.
It's part of a broader conversation about waste around the festive season, with 76 million tonnes of waste produced in Australia every year. During the festive season, this amount can increase by 30 per cent, according to CSIRO. It seems many of us have too often had to relegate our gifts to the back of the cupboard to collect dust.
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