The organization installed 4,500 pounds of discarded clothing outside the California state capitol building in Sacramento on ...

A consortium spanning seven European countries has launched the TexMat initiative to develop a deposit-return system for used ...

Germany is considering a fast-fashion tax to make manufacturers contribute to disposal costs. The aim is to reduce textile ...

Joe Whitten, Co-Founder and CEO of Apparel Impact, is on a mission—to focus on reuse, recycling, upcycling, and downcycling ...

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 ...

With most donated clothes exported or thrown away, experts are calling for a shakeup of how we deal with the growing fashion waste issue. With most donated clothes exported or thrown away, experts are ...

Japan aims to reduce clothes waste by 25 percent by fiscal 2030 compared with 10 years before to address the environmental impact of carbon dioxide emissions-heavy garment production. The move to ...

Is the textile and fashion industry environmentally unfriendly? Inoue: Globally, the textile and fashion industry accounts for 10% of all industries in terms of CO2 emissions, making it the ...

As far as the T2T Alliance-T2T being short for textile-to-textile, as in recycling-is concerned, the European Union's ecodesign for sustainable products regulation has one massive flaw: it doesn't ...

On September 22, 2024, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 707 into law, known as the Responsible Textile Recovery Act of 2024 (“the Act”). This new legislation requires companies that produce ...

Textile waste from uniforms contributes heavily to landfills and greenhouse gas emissions, with law enforcement uniforms being a prime target for recycling efforts. Police uniforms are ideal for ...

With most donated clothes exported or thrown away, experts are calling for a shakeup of how we deal with the growing fashion waste issue. A first of its kind study, published in Nature Cities, ...