“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 ...

Europe sends part of its textile surplus to unregulated hubs, sometimes returning it to the same country of origin, tripling ...

The graphic T-shirt at the Brooklyn Industries store looks and feels like any normal T, perhaps even softer. So soft, in fact, that it's hard to believe it's made from 14 recycled plastic water ...

A new factory operated by Renewcell, a textile recycling company in Sweden, is the first step in turning old clothes into new, high-quality fashion. About a half-dozen start-ups around the world are ...

Everything I wear has holes. I hate shopping, so I’m stuck in an endless cycle of wearing things down until they’re in shreds hanging on my body. Now, entire shelves of my closet are dedicated to ...

Several weeks ago, Recycling Perks members and Facebook followers were invited to design the ultimate green slogan. The responses were overwhelming, according to Verde, the Chesapeake, Virginia-based ...

In Seattle, as in most cities around the country, there are a number of items that you aren’t supposed to put in the curbside recycling bin: bubble wrap, for instance, or multilayer plastic packaging ...

I don’t know how recycling works. Or how fabric gets made. But when I found out that nine World Cup teams are wearing uniforms made out of old plastic bottles, I was agog. I pictured people sewing ...

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 ...