Europe’s export volume of used textiles, including clothing and footwear, tripled in two decades, a new report has found. The report from the European Environment Agency also found that bio-based ...

Amsterdam-based Fashion for Good has launched its Sorting for Circularity USA report. The report covers consumer disposal behavior, textile waste composition and the potential for fiber-to-fiber ...

Serial investor and entrepreneur Mark Cuban recently took a stake in a company addressing the massive problem of textile waste. Cuban offered to invest $300,000 in Retold Recycling in exchange for a ...

Sustainability platform Fashion For Good is launching a tool to map textile waste hotspots globally. Called World of Waste, the goal is to aggregate data points about existing supplies of textile ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the United States, textile waste grew 80 percent since 2000 — four times greater than the overall waste stream. To turn the ...

Resource Recycling Systems (RRS), Ann Arbor, Michigan, announced the release of its “Textile Recovery in the U.S.: A Roadmap to Circularity” white paper June 30. The white paper highlights the current ...

PETALING JAYA: Malaysia is a major global importer of used and waste textiles, some of which are resold as pre-loved clothes while a portion ends up in landfills. According to the United Nations ...

RIT-GIS research engineers develop automated system to dismantle used clothing for high-quality textile recycling. AI and laser technology identify and remove non-recyclable elements like zippers, ...

According to one estimate, 66 percent of post-consumer textile waste ends up in landfills, 19 percent is combusted, and just 15 percent is recycled. Moreover, since the 1960s, the country has seen a ...

Monitor Member States’ implementation of the revision into national waste laws to understand nuances at the national level; Map expected compliance obligations and business impacts for producers and ...

Every year the city of Spokane produces about 30,000 tons of textile waste: threadbare T-shirts, worn-out bed sheets, shrunken sweaters and much more. What's not donated to thrift stores (even there, ...