Wondering what to do with old clothes? Before tossing them in the trash, consider clothes recycling. Your outdated and discarded wardrobe could end up like the 2.5 million tons of textiles that were ...

Chanalisa Sera is the first supervisor at Homeboy Industries’ new business, Homeboy Threads. From the seat of a forklift, Chanalisa Sera moves hundreds of boxes of clothes within a warehouse in Los ...

Growing mountains of textile waste are hard to recycle. There is scope to improve chemical and mechanical recycling methods but consumers and fashion brands play a ...

An annual campaign that encourages people to buy pre-loved items over new ones, Second Hand September is a great initiative to help you move away from fast fashion. It's also a good time to consider ...

“I’m looking forward to the day when it is normal to turn in your old, favorite T-shirt into a store, then pick up a recycled shirt made from other people’s old favorite shirts,” says Michael ...

Sometimes our closets and dressers seem like they’re brimming with clothing. Despite this, we might find ourselves feeling like we have nothing to wear. Both situations signal it might be time for a ...

I’ve seen it up close: mothers washing clothes in streams tinted with dye, fishermen pulling lifeless fish from once-clear ...

EU-funded research is helping to turn old clothes into new, quality products, aiming to reduce textile waste and make recycled textiles the norm.By Ali JonesIn a factory in Waregem, north-west Belgium ...

Two hours south of Berlin, in the colorless fields of Wolfen, H&M works with a massive textile sorting and recycling facility, one that might prove to be the unlikely looking future and redeemer of ...

A new textile recycling plant opened by the company Renewcell in the small coastal city of Sundsvall, Sweden, is so big that employees use bikes to get from one end of the production line to the other ...