Buttons, zippers and threads literally hold garments together, but they also disrupt preprocessing that needs to happen at ...

Every year, 11 million tons of textiles — clothing, towels, bedding and more — end up in landfills in the United States. It’s a staggering number, especially since only about 1% of textile waste is ...

The event, observed on 30 March every year, aims to cast a spotlight on the environmental and social repercussions stemming from the industry's tendency towards mass production and consumption. The ...

Researchers at the UNSW Sustainable Materials Research and Technology (SMaRT) Centre have published new findings ...

French firm Reju to invest $390 million in a textile regeneration hub in Rochester, New York, expected to create 70 jobs by ...

RIT-GIS research engineers develop automated system to dismantle used clothing for high-quality textile recycling. AI and laser technology identify and remove non-recyclable elements like zippers, ...

A design and research team from the College of Human Ecology has found an answer to the one of the textile industry’s greatest problems. The problem is textile waste and the answer the Fiberizer v.2, ...

Cheap clothes and online retailing mean people are buying — and discarding — more garments than ever before. BRUSSELS — Europeans’ soaring appetite for fast fashion — accelerated by the ease of online ...

The fashion industry has a very well-known waste problem. Almost all (roughly 97%) of clothing eventually ends up in a landfill, according to McKinsey, and it doesn't take very long for the lifecycle ...

Reju is revolutionizing the textile industry with a circular approach to fashion waste, opening its Regeneration Hub Zero in Frankfurt, Germany, and a partnerships Waste Management and Goodwill.

Germany is considering a fast-fashion tax to make manufacturers contribute to disposal costs. The aim is to reduce textile ...

Discarded clothes are seen in a landfill in the Atacama Desert, in Iquique, Chile, in April 2024. File Photo by Ailen Diaz/EPA SANTIAGO, Chile, Oct. 30 (UPI) --Chile has launched an effort to reduce ...