Wondering what to do with old clothes? Before tossing them in the trash, consider clothes recycling. Your outdated and discarded wardrobe could end up like the 2.5 million tons of textiles that were ...

The towers of old clothes reach almost to the ceiling of the 200,000-square-foot hall. Forklifts rumble across the concrete floor, squeezing between the stacked bales of jeans, jackets, sweaters, and ...

Growing mountains of textile waste are hard to recycle. There is scope to improve chemical and mechanical recycling methods but consumers and fashion brands play a ...

Textile waste is the industry’s best-kept secret—and its biggest missed opportunity. Globally, we are generating more than 90 ...

“I’m looking forward to the day when it is normal to turn in your old, favorite T-shirt into a store, then pick up a recycled shirt made from other people’s old favorite shirts,” says Michael ...

Chanalisa Sera is the first supervisor at Homeboy Industries’ new business, Homeboy Threads. From the seat of a forklift, Chanalisa Sera moves hundreds of boxes of clothes within a warehouse in Los ...

Girlfriend Collective, the activewear brand that makes its garments from recycled plastic bottles, has developed a programme to collect its used garments from customers and turn them into new ones.