Growing mountains of textile waste are hard to recycle. There is scope to improve chemical and mechanical recycling methods but consumers and fashion brands play a ...

An annual campaign that encourages people to buy pre-loved items over new ones, Second Hand September is a great initiative to help you move away from fast fashion. It's also a good time to consider ...

Chanalisa Sera is the first supervisor at Homeboy Industries’ new business, Homeboy Threads. From the seat of a forklift, Chanalisa Sera moves hundreds of boxes of clothes within a warehouse in Los ...

Each year, as tens of billions of garments are made, countless unwanted clothes end up discarded — often destined for landfills or incineration. The fast fashion industry often gets blamed for ...

Less than 1% of used clothing gets repurposed into new garments, so last year the North Face tweaked some of its most popular styles—such as the fuzzy Osito jacket, made from 100% recycled ...

A new textile recycling plant opened by the company Renewcell in the small coastal city of Sundsvall, Sweden, is so big that employees use bikes to get from one end of the production line to the other ...

Are those torn-up blue jeans at the end of the line? Is that stained T-shirt still tucked away in the back of the drawer? Well, after Nov. 1, it will be a state code violation to toss them, or any ...

Many people donate and resell used clothing. But what about that single sock, the ripped stuffed animal, or those shirts with the sweat-stained collars? Those lower-quality textiles often end up in ...

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