At a factory in Zhejiang province on China’s eastern coast, two mounds of discarded cotton clothing and bed linens, loosely separated into dark and light colors, pile up on a workroom floor. Jacket ...

Cotton waste is turning into a new cash cow for Bangladesh as it is increasingly being sold abroad although local garment exporters are in favour of retaining and recycling it. Cotton waste refers to ...

HONG KONG — Simple gestures could be all it takes to alter the color of your clothes in the future, according to a research team that has developed a color-changing textile embedded with a tiny camera ...

PAKISTAN is now increasingly exploiting commercial value of cotton waste, thanks to broader use of improved technology in ginning and cotton yarn making that allows accurate separation of bulk and ...

When a cotton gin is used to separate cotton fibers from their seeds, a lot of lint is produced as a waste product. Currently, much of that cotton lint is just burned or put in landfills. Thanks to ...

Move over grassfed and grainfed cattle. A new factory upcycling waste from one of Australia's major crops could lead to more "cottonfed" beef, and a byproduct from the process could find its way into ...

It’s also why the cotton farmer turned steel fabrica­tion businessman is well ahead of the game — and ahead of Tony Abbott — when it comes to tackling­ carbon emissions from agri­cul­­tural ...