There has been a lot of conversation on social media about the downsides of polyester. But are those downsides as bad as they ...

As much as I love new fashion (as in: all of the incredible looks that just came out of New York Fashion Week), there’s something particularly satisfying about recycled fashion. Every year, 12.8 ...

Timo Rissanen is a founding board member of the Union of Concerned Researchers in Fashion. Today we make more clothing than ever before. And the driver for this is primarily economic, rather than ...

The lion’s share of today’s recycled clothing fabrics are made from plastic bottles, even as used textiles pile up in landfills or get incinerated. But that’s beginning to change. Several companies ...

India’s textile recycling industry is driving global circular fashion, turning waste into sustainable fabrics and ...

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 ...

TOKYO — Uniqlo is stepping up its sustainability efforts with a new initiative called Re.Uniqlo, which collects used but unneeded Uniqlo clothes from customers and turns them into something new. The ...

As plastic manufacturing and pollution continues to threaten our climate, the practice of recycling consumer plastics has gained widespread popularity. Every time I toss a plastic water bottle into ...

Likewise, if the clothes you are getting rid of are dirty or stained, they may not be suitable for donation or recycling.

The global Clothing and Textile Recycling Market was valued at USD 13610 Million in the year 2024 and is projected to reach a revised size of USD 20220 Million by 2031, growing at a CAGR of 5.9% ...

The towers of old clothes reach almost to the ceiling of the 200,000-square-foot hall. Forklifts rumble across the concrete floor, squeezing between the stacked bales of jeans, jackets, sweaters, and ...