Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Small but mighty, trims are the MVPs of the fashion world. Buttons, zippers, fasteners, grommets, thread, tapes, bindings, beads ...

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, ...

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

EPR for textiles is no longer a distant idea. It is in motion across the U.S., with California taking the lead in establishing and passing the first EPR law on textiles (SB 707) in 2024. In addition ...

French firm Reju to invest $390 million in a textile regeneration hub in Rochester, New York, expected to create 70 jobs by ...

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, ...

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 ...

The fashion industry has a very well-known waste problem. Almost all (roughly 97%) of clothing eventually ends up in a landfill, according to McKinsey, and it doesn't take very long for the lifecycle ...

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.

Germany is considering a fast-fashion tax to make manufacturers contribute to disposal costs. The aim is to reduce textile ...

Buttons, zippers and threads literally hold garments together, but they also disrupt preprocessing that needs to happen at scale to usher textile-to-textile recycling into the mainstream.