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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 ...

Gap Inc has signed an agreement with Syre, a textile-to-textile recycler founded by H&M Group, to use 10,000 tons per year of the company’s recycled polyester across its portfolio of brands. The ...

Done right, textile-to-textile recycling in the United States could unlock a $1.5 billion economic opportunity, a new report says. The problem is that clothing is currently being disposed of wrong.

The towers of old clothes reach almost to the ceiling of the 200,000-square-foot hall. Forklifts rumble across the concrete floor, squeezing between the stacked bales of jeans, jackets, sweaters, and ...

UNtrash It, an initiative designed to keep unwanted clothes out of landfills that launched last April in New York City, is expanding to Dallas and Los Angeles this Earth Month. Last year in the New ...

On a sunny September afternoon in Manhattan, a couple of days before the start of Climate Week NYC, a Sourcing Journal reporter went hunting for a mound of textile waste. Mission semi-accomplished.

A woman who attended a workshop to learn how to upcycle her clothes said she had been inspired to help tackle textile waste. Jessie James, 33, took part in a community project, led by Stroud-based ...

Circ’s new $500 million facility in Saint-Avold, France, is set to become the world’s first industrial-scale plant dedicated to recycling polycotton textile waste—a feat long considered impossible at ...

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 ...

Applying a legal framework to something that is as creative and open-minded as fashion, apparel and textile design is a challenge, indeed. Legislators in the EU nevertheless launched into establishing ...