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 Your outdated and discarded wardrobe could end up like the 2.5 million tons of textiles that were ...

It's natural to part with pieces of your wardrobe as your tastes and circumstances evolve. Even the most conscious shoppers do. But what really can make the difference is what you do with the clothes ...

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 ...

If you use the cold winter months to declutter and organize your home, discover which items your local donation center might ...

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

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 ...

“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 ...

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.

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 ...

The steps to making fashion more sustainable have been clear for a long time. Reduce, reuse, and recycle. But here’s the problem: There’s currently no good way to recycle clothing at scale. Designer ...