American Circular Textiles (AMCIRC) has welcomed progress on the Recycling Infrastructure and Accessibility Act (RIAA), as it ...

Each year, the global fashion industry generates more than 200 billion pounds of textile waste, with fast fashion alone contributing to around 10% of global carbon emissions. Overproduction to satisfy ...

“As organizer of the inaugural Textiles Recycling Expo USA, it was incredible to see the event come to life in Charlotte, ...

Fashion for Good and Circle Economy, a global impact organization supporting a circular economy, have determined that the value of low-end post-consumer textiles available for fiber-to-fiber recycling ...

Clothes and blankets, it turns out, can keep you warm in more than one life. That beloved sweatshirt that kept you warm through college but now has holes and stains is not necessarily destined for the ...

A joint project carried out by Avery Dennison and TEXAID has found that RFID technology can triple textile sorting speed ...

Norway-based Tomra and London-based Globuc hosted a webinar Feb. 7 to discuss scaling global textile circularity. The webinar corresponded with the release of Tomra’s white paper, “Transforming ...

Achieving circularity in textiles is an increasingly important topic on the industry agenda. However, at the present moment, this industry is still largely dominated by a linear business model, ...

For consumers, recycling bottles, cans, and paper is a simple toss into a marked bin. But when it comes to damaged and unwearable clothing, the trash is a tempting container for a quick deposit. That ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Esha writes about building better, more regenerative businesses. Polyester has become a popular choice globally, and may even be ...

The PUreTex project focuses on chemically recycling polyester waste textiles to recover the raw materials needed to ...

Recycling is more than just a club at Masconomet; it’s a community. With the collaboration of Bay State Textiles and the Masconomet Recycling and DECA clubs, four textile recycling boxes have been ...