ZHANGJIAGANG, China (AP) — In an industrial park in Zhangjiagang, a small city on China’s east coast, a large humming and hissing machine feeds on piles of used clothes and sorts them. The novelty? It ...

Researchers developed a "super silk" with less shrinking, and Remade funds textile circularity research projects.

The apparel industry accounts for 10% of global carbon emissions. The annual amount of fiber production reached 113 million tons in 2021 and the demand is increasing every year. However, almost 90% of ...

The clothing used to test the machine is more than 1,000 items from a local Goodwill that were donated but didn’t sell. Every year, 11 million tons of textiles – clothing, towels, bedding and more – ...

Goodwill Industries is working with Western University and Fanshawe College in Ontario, Canada, to devise methods for ...

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 ...

India’s positioning as the world’s textile recycling hub rests heavily upon the small town of Panipat, an approximate two-hour drive from country’s capital city of New Delhi. Pre-consumer textile ...

When you are in Panipat, giant trucks piled high with clothes are a common sight. Every few minutes, you see another one pass by. Some carry heaps of second-hand garments, others carry factory scraps.

Here’s what brands should know about the state’s landmark regulations, which require producers to assume responsibility for the full life cycle of their products.

A textile recycling facility will launch in Qatar early next year, the first in a global franchise led by Rieter Group that wants to produce certified recycled yarns “at an unprecedented scale.” “With ...