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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every year, 11 million tons of textiles — clothing, towels, bedding and more — end up in landfills in the United States. It’s a ...

In 2012, Reet Aus founded her own eponymous clothing brand and incorporates upcycled textile waste in her designs.

SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. — California is taking steps to address the growing problem of textile waste in landfills with the passage of Senate Bill 707, signed into law at the end of 2024. The ...

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, ...

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.

We buy more clothes than almost anywhere in Europe, yet most of what we discard is exported, dumped or disappears into an opaque global system.

Zips, buttons, and labels all stand in the way of recycling our clothing. But removing them can be time, cost, and labor-intensive.

WENZHOU, China — China is the world’s largest textile producer and consumer, throwing away 26 million tons of clothes each year, mostly made of unrecyclable synthetics. A recycling factory in Zhejiang ...

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 ...

Kipaş Textiles is stepping into the textile-to-textile recycling space with fibR-e, a new recycling platform that addresses the challenges of recycling polyester-based textiles at scale. The recycling ...

Textile waste in Bukavu is a big problem. One woman and her growing team turn the fabric into fashion and art, cutting ...