Jonathan Webb

If you come across anything suspicious, report it to the ACCC.

So anything you think is an example of greenwashing, anything you think that could have contaminants in it, that sort of thing.

But more broadly, the sense I got from the experts was this really is something that does need government regulation and there needs to be stricter rules on how these things are imported and what they're tested for.

The European Union at the moment is introducing a new standard.

It's called a digital product passport and products sold in the EU will need to contain these little barcodes that you can scan and will tell you all of this information about where something's come from, how it was made, what's involved in the making, you know, how many different places it's gone through, all of that information.

It'll be interesting to see how that plays out in Europe.

It's possible some of that will come to Australia because a lot of brands that sell in Europe also sell in Australia.

So it'll be interesting to see what they do.

Yes.

We may eventually learn that our shirts are 30% cotton again or, you know, where the cotton was grown, that sort of thing.

Thank you, Jonathan.

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