The organization installed 4,500 pounds of discarded clothing outside the California state capitol building in Sacramento on ...

Buttons, zippers and threads literally hold garments together, but they also disrupt preprocessing that needs to happen at ...

Each year, the global fashion industry generates more than 200 billion pounds of textile waste, with fast fashion alone contributing to around 10% of global carbon emissions. Overproduction to satisfy ...

With the textile industry facing mounting scrutiny over the environmental impacts of fast fashion, two researchers from ...

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

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, ...

"The bottom line drives a lot of innovation." Startup develops game-changing solution for major problem with common waste: 'I thought it was too good to be true' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Every year the city of Spokane produces about 30,000 tons of textile waste: threadbare T-shirts, worn-out bed sheets, shrunken sweaters and much more. What's not donated to thrift stores (even there, ...

Polyester textiles account for 2/3 of the global PET market of around 100 million tons. Only 13% of textile waste is currently recycled, and only 1% is recycled "fiber-to-fiber" 1,2 Carbios has ...

Long Beach partners with SUAY for a textile recycling event, allowing residents to drop off worn-out textiles to reduce landfill waste.