Every year, millions of tons of textiles are wasted during the fashion industry’s design and production processes. Typically, that excess, unused material ends up in landfills, releasing greenhouse ...

With a focus on sustainability, a University of Minnesota alumna looked to current apparel design students to implement a zero-waste product line. A year-and-a-half ago, owner of Marcy-Holmes clothing ...

Until now, old clothes have mainly been incinerated. Using adapted processes from paper production, it is possible to recover ...

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Kelly Cobb stands on a stepstool to reach the square opening atop a tall blue machine in the Sustainable Textile Research through Applied Discovery (RAD) Lab at the University of Delaware. Carefully, ...

Thrifting goes hand in hand with a sustainable lifestyle. With Americans throwing away over 13 million tons of clothing each year, fast fashion and overconsumption lead to excess waste in landfills, ...

The way we produce, transport, consume and dispose of consumer goods and food accounts for more than 36% of United States greenhouse emissions, which contribute directly to climate change. A major ...

I:CO, a leading global, end-to-end solutions provider for the reuse and recycling of clothing, shoes and other textiles, today launches its first-ever I:CO City initiative with the City of San ...

Zero Waste Daniel never saw a fabric scrap he didn’t like. He’s seen a lot of pieces of woven fabric that ended on the cutting room floor of many a designer’s studio. He’s been collecting bits of silk ...

WENZHOU, China (AP) — 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 ...