Correction to: Nature Climate Change https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-017-0058-9, published online 2 January 2018.

In the version of this Editorial originally published, the rate of clothing disposal to landfill was incorrectly given as ‘one rubbish truck per day’; it should have read ‘one rubbish truck per second’. This has now been corrected in the online versions of the Editorial.