Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the United States, textile waste grew 80 percent since 2000 — four times greater than the overall waste stream. To turn the ...

Camille Tagle is co-founder and creative director of FABSCRAP, which is a textile recycling nonprofit. Textiles generate 21 billion pounds of waste that goes into landfills every year, and FABSCRAP ...

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, textiles accounted for nearly 6 percent of the municipal solid waste generated in 2018, the most recent data available on the agency’s website.

Boston residents now have a sustainable new option for getting rid of old clothes — dropping them into textile-recycling boxes. The City of Boston has partnered with Helpsy, a textile collection ...

Textile-to-textile regeneration company Reju has announced its first US-based industrial facility will be in Rochester, New ...

Our campus is proud to have a textile recycling/donation bin conveniently located adjacent to the East Campus Garage, next to the Amazon Locker. In November 2022, Massachusetts implemented a ban on ...

In a paper published in Nature Communications, researchers at the Industrial Sustainable Chemistry group of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) present a solution to the challenging problem of recycling ...

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A consortium spanning seven European countries has launched the TexMat initiative to develop a deposit-return system for used ...

As far as the T2T Alliance-T2T being short for textile-to-textile, as in recycling-is concerned, the European Union's ecodesign for sustainable products regulation has one massive flaw: it doesn't ...