Fast fashion has emerged as a profitable strategy to drive massive sales, bombarding consumers with a never ending variety of new clothes at cheap prices. Fueled by the pressure to showcase new ...

We buy more clothes than almost anywhere in Europe, yet most of what we discard is exported, dumped or disappears into an ...

Zips, buttons, and labels all stand in the way of recycling our clothing. But removing them can be time, cost, and ...

The Matoha portable fabric identifier is a handheld scanner that employs near-infrared spectroscopy and AI algorithms to ...

SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. — California is taking steps to address the growing problem of textile waste in landfills with the passage of Senate Bill 707, signed into law at the end of 2024. The ...

RIT-GIS research engineers develop automated system to dismantle used clothing for high-quality textile recycling. AI and laser technology identify and remove non-recyclable elements like zippers, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every year, 11 million tons of textiles — clothing, towels, bedding and more — end up in landfills in the United States. It’s a ...

Textile waste in Bukavu is a big problem. One woman and her growing team turn the fabric into fashion and art, cutting ...

A design and research team from the College of Human Ecology has found an answer to the one of the textile industry’s greatest problems. The problem is textile waste and the answer the Fiberizer v.2, ...