There are "three legs to the stool" when it comes to textile recycling-collection, sortation, and finally, the processes that turn waste into new, saleable product. Knowing this, recently launched ...

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, ...

In the searing heat at the ACAMTC recycling cooperative south of São Paulo, in Três Corações, Brazil, a group of recycling waste workers known as Catadores prepared bales of discarded plastic for ...

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The Portuguese parent company of Selenis says its textile recycling plans remain in place despite the closure of nearby Alpek facility in North Carolina. Sweden-based Syre is partnering with Selenis ...

Fashion trends die quickly, but old clothes can live for years. After it’s left your wardrobe, nearly every garment eventually winds up burned for fuel or tossed in a dump, oozing planet-warming ...

Professor Kotohiro Nomura's research group at Tokyo Metropolitan University has developed an efficient method for the exclusive depolymerization of PET (polyethylene terephthalate), PET bottles and ...

For over a decade, investment and expectations have been funnelled into textile-to-textile recycling, with a groundswell of emerging technologies promising to turn fashion’s trash back into treasure.

Every week, millions of Americans toss their recyclables into a single bin, trusting that their plastic bottles, aluminum cans and cardboard boxes will be given a new life. Plastics are among the ...