Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the United States, textile waste grew 80 percent since 2000 — four times greater than the overall waste stream. To turn the ...

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, textiles accounted for nearly 6 percent of the municipal solid waste generated in 2018, the most recent data available on the agency’s website.

In a paper published in Nature Communications, researchers at the Industrial Sustainable Chemistry group of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) present a solution to the challenging problem of recycling ...

According to United Kingdom-based waste management company Business Waste, the textile recycling sector in the U.K. and the European Union is in turmoil, and it is calling on fashion retailers to ...

After 67.6 tonnes of old clothing were kept out of landfills last year, Penang aims to triple its textile recycling ...

ISTANBUL, Turkey, Dec. 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Global Fashion Agenda (GFA) announced the launch of the Circular Fashion Partnership: Türkiye, a new initiative that aims to support the ...

Plastic bottles are processed into pellets at Unifi's recycling center in Reidsville. The material is then shipped to other Unifi facilties to be made into fabrics ...

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