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 ...

Seen as something of a holy grail of circularity, textile-to-textile recycling remains a hot topic, as evidenced by multiple discussions on the subject at the recent Textiles Recycling Expo in ...

The image is split vertically down the middle. On the left side, a tube spits out discarded clothes onto a pile of other discarded clothes in a landfill. On the right side, the pump spits clothes out ...

Recycling old clothes isn’t always straightforward, but there are programs that are making it so much easier to keep apparel, shoes and accessories from ending up in landfills. Ahead, I delve into the ...

H.R.2145 would establish a pilot program to improve recycling availability in areas more than 75 miles from a materials ...

Globally, it is estimated that 85 percent of textile materials end up in landfills—equating to millions of tons per year in landfilled material in the U.S. alone. According to Amelia Trumble, ...

The first is accessibility. While chemical recycling promises to squeeze more value out of clothing waste when reuse and mechanical recycling prove inadequate, touting virgin-equivalent outputs at a ...

Textiles are the sleeping giant of the recycling industry. Every year, Massachusetts residents and businesses throw out an astonishing 230,000 tons of textiles, including clothing, shoes, handbags, ...

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Growing textile consumption and waste volumes in Europe are a global problem. In fact, Europe generates 7 to 7.5 million tons of textile waste per year, of which only 30 percent is collected. Today, ...

Panipat's textile recycling industry does not exist in spite of poverty—it exists because global economics dictated that the cheapest place to process the wealthy world's discarded clothing is a ...

Bangladesh’s garment industry stands at a critical turning point. For more than three decades, the country built its economic success on low-cost manufacturing, efficient exports, and strong ...