“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 ...

Today we make more clothing than ever before. And the driver for this is primarily economic, rather than human need. Over the past decade, the term “circular economy” has entered the fashion industry ...

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 ...

There’s a new trend in product recycling being pioneered by companies like Ikea, The North Face and Patagonia, which are buying back their used products for resale to consumers. Accepting used ...

The clothes we wear come with their own environmental baggage. Consider that a cotton T-shirt requires roughly 700 gallons of water to produce. Each year, the production of polyester emits roughly 1.5 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...