Textile waste is a major environmental threat. Here’s what’s being done about it. Hand holding clothing tag with textile waste in background. Behind the convenience and flashiness of fast fashion lie ...
The selection of the first Producer Responsibility Organization (PRO) for textiles in California marks a turning point for the U.S. textile recovery ...
The Fibersort Consortium unveiled Thursday the market-ready version of Fibersort, a machine that automatically divides large volumes of mixed post-consumer textiles by fiber composition and color, ...
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In 2015, Denmark-based nonprofit Global Fashion Agenda estimated that 92 million tons of textile waste were generated worldwide annually, and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, based in the United ...
73 percent of all textile waste in Europe end up incinerated or in landfills. Not because they are unusable, but because recycling technology has so far been unable to handle the messy reality of ...
Chellie Pingree cannot imagine throwing perfectly good clothing away. The idea, in fact, is practically anathema to her. “I come from the state of Maine; I represent Maine,” the Democratic ...
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