While textile-to-textile recycling using post-industrial waste has grown in recent years, the process of converting post-consumer garments into new fibers hasn't quite gotten off the ground in the ...

As the textile industry faces mounting pressure to deliver circular solutions, improve recycling infrastructure and respond to evolving regulation, ...

Globally, it is estimated that 85 percent of textile materials end up in landfills—equating to millions of tons per year in landfilled material in the U.S. alone. According to Amelia Trumble, ...

There are “three legs to the stool” when it comes to textile recycling—collection, sortation, and finally, the processes that turn waste into new, saleable product. Knowing this, recently launched ...

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At recycled fiber producer Unifi’s facility in Yadkinville, North Carolina, workers pile hundreds of discarded garments onto a massive conveyor belt. As the belt lurches forward, mounds of old ...

These are topsy-turvy times for the nascent textile recycling industry. The clothing behemoth H&M Group has cofounded a textile recycling firm that promises to become a huge global producer just as ...

On the Swedish coast of the Baltic Sea, in the city of Sundsvall – home to the country's pulp and paper industry – a team of scientists, chemists, entrepreneurs and textile manufacturers are ...

UNtrash It, an initiative designed to keep unwanted clothes out of landfills that launched last April in New York City, is expanding to Dallas and Los Angeles this Earth Month. Last year in the New ...

The PUreTex project focuses on chemically recycling polyester waste textiles to recover the raw materials needed to ...