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 ...

Fast fashion has emerged as a profitable strategy to drive massive sales, bombarding consumers with a never ending variety of new clothes at cheap prices. Fueled by the pressure to showcase new ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

PARIS, Sept. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Reju™, the purpose-driven, leading textile-to-textile regeneration company, is using augmented reality (AR) to give Climate Week NYC 2025 attendees and the city ...

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 ...