Clothing production has hit unprecedented rates-so has textile waste. A new BCG report explores scaling the circular economy to reclaim lost value.

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 ...

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, ...

Atmos reports on the fashion industry's profound waste problem, driven by overproduction and overconsumption, harming global ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

Decomposition offers a viable end-of-life pathway for difficult-to-recycle textiles, writes Amanda Sturgeon from the Biomimicry Institute ...