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 ...

Here at Country Living, we know the critical importance of recycling. But, beyond what the council can pick up during local kerbside collections, it can be confusing to know how to recycle items like ...

Recycling old clothes isn’t always straightforward, but there are programs that are making it so much easier to keep apparel, shoes and accessories from ending up in landfills. Ahead, I delve into the ...

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 ...

Discarded clothing is an environmental scourge. But across Europe, companies are†joining forces to†build new technologies that could make recycling scalable. (Dreamstime/TNS) At the height of the ...

MADRID/NAIROBI (Reuters) - Clothes recycling is the pressure-release valve of fast fashion, and it's breaking under COVID-19 curbs. The multi-billion-dollar trade in second-hand clothing helps prevent ...

Hanley Sustainability Institute Summer Fellows recently had the opportunity to visit the Rumpke Recycling and Resource Center in Columbus, OH, to learn more about what goes on behind the scenes of ...

In the heart of Accra, Ghana, lies a vibrant testament to human resilience and the cycles of commerce – the Kantamanto Market. Known as one of the largest secondhand clothing markets globally, it is a ...

All of San Juan’s garbage and recycling is processed off of the island. The same goes for garbage on Orcas and Lopez islands — it’s loaded on a train, which heads to Klickitat County. Trash from San ...

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Carter’s, Inc. (NYSE: CRI), the largest branded marketer in North America of apparel exclusively for babies and young children, announces the launch of Carter’s recycling ...

WENZHOU, China — At a factory in Zhejiang province on China’s eastern coast, two mounds of discarded cotton clothing and bed linens, loosely separated into dark and light colors, pile up on a workroom ...