While the industry awaits legislation to advance textile recycling, the circular actors continue to forge ahead. Worn Again Technologies and members including Renewcell and Lenzing are “committed to ...

Each year, the global fashion industry generates more than 200 billion pounds of textile waste, with fast fashion alone contributing to around 10% of global carbon emissions. Overproduction to satisfy ...

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 ...

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With 8 to 10 percent of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions stemming from the apparel and footwear sector, the industry’s contributions to the growing threat of climate change are fast coming under ...

These are topsy-turvy times for the nascent textile recycling industry. The clothing behemoth H&M Group has cofounded a textile recycling firm that promises to become a huge global producer just as ...

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In 2015, Denmark-based nonprofit Global Fashion Agenda estimated that 92 million tons of textile waste were generated worldwide annually, and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, based in the United ...

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.

Researchers present a solution to the challenging problem of recycling poly-cotton textile waste. The process starts with fully removing all cotton from the fabric using superconcentrated hydrochloric ...