Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the United States, textile waste grew 80 percent since 2000 — four times greater than the overall waste stream. To turn the ...

Camille Tagle is co-founder and creative director of FABSCRAP, which is a textile recycling nonprofit. Textiles generate 21 billion pounds of waste that goes into landfills every year, and FABSCRAP ...

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, textiles accounted for nearly 6 percent of the municipal solid waste generated in 2018, the most recent data available on the agency’s website.

Amsterdam-based Fashion for Good has launched its Sorting for Circularity USA report. The report covers consumer disposal behavior, textile waste composition and the potential for fiber-to-fiber ...

Textile waste is a major environmental threat. Here’s what’s being done about it. Hand holding clothing tag with textile waste in background. Behind the convenience and flashiness of fast fashion lie ...

In a paper published in Nature Communications, researchers at the Industrial Sustainable Chemistry group of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) present a solution to the challenging problem of recycling ...

Our campus is proud to have a textile recycling/donation bin conveniently located adjacent to the East Campus Garage, next to the Amazon Locker. In November 2022, Massachusetts implemented a ban on ...

As its clothing consumption climbs, the UK’s textile collection system begins to fall—leaving the industry’s stakeholders holding the bag as it crumbles. If Britain’s post-consumer waste enthusiasm ...

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As far as the T2T Alliance-T2T being short for textile-to-textile, as in recycling-is concerned, the European Union's ecodesign for sustainable products regulation has one massive flaw: it doesn't ...

After 67.6 tonnes of old clothing were kept out of landfills last year, Penang aims to triple its textile recycling ...