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 ...

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.

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 ...

As its clothing consumption climbs, the UK’s textile collection system begins to fall—leaving the industry’s stakeholders holding the bag as it crumbles. If Britain’s post-consumer waste enthusiasm ...

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One of the biggest impediments to scaling textile-to-textile recycling, a new position paper says, is that most jurisdictions classify textile waste as, well, waste. Semantics, surely? Not really, ...

According to United Kingdom-based waste management company Business Waste, the textile recycling sector in the U.K. and the European Union is in turmoil, and it is calling on fashion retailers to ...

ISTANBUL, Turkey, Dec. 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Global Fashion Agenda (GFA) announced the launch of the Circular Fashion Partnership: Türkiye, a new initiative that aims to support the ...

After 67.6 tonnes of old clothing were kept out of landfills last year, Penang aims to triple its textile recycling ...

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 ...