Until now, old clothes have mainly been incinerated. Using adapted processes from paper production, it is possible to recover ...

Alexander Weissensteiner, Alexander Wagner and Thomas Harter (from left) with a paper sample consisting of 30 per cent recycled cotton fibres. In Austria alone, around 220,000 tonnes of textile waste ...

While it's great that many types of paper can now be recycled, textile waste is still mostly just dumped or burned (with a few experimental exceptions). A new technique could change that by combining ...