EU-funded research is helping to turn old clothes into new, quality products, aiming to reduce textile waste and make recycled textiles the norm. By Ali Jones In a factory in Waregem, north-west ...

Michael Rivera, an assistant professor with The ATLAS Institute at the University of Colorado Boulder, talks about dissolvable fibers made from gelatin. Are you someone who just can't resist a $4 ...

Sortworthy believes that textile home pickup service will reduce the amount of goods that ends up in the landfill each year. As an example, about 90% of shoe waste ends up in landfills. It ...

SANTIAGO, Chile, Oct. 30 (UPI) --Chile has launched an effort to reduce textile waste that has led creating some 4,000 illegal dumps across the country, several of them in the Atacama Desert. Through ...

What Is the Textile Waste Crisis? The fashion industry’s boom has come at a steep environmental cost. Each year, around 92 million tonnes of textile waste are produced worldwide — much of it ending up ...

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

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, ...

The European Parliament has adopted new legislation aimed at preventing and reducing food and textile waste across the European Union. The textile rules encompass products such as clothing, ...

Today, the Council presidency and European Parliament representatives reached a provisional agreement on the targeted revision of the waste framework directive, setting EU targets for food waste ...