The textile sector faces a "fundamental supply chain gap" due to unoptimized post-consumer textile waste streams. Claras ...

Socks with holes, moth-eaten sweaters and ripped T-shirts—these aren’t the kinds of garments one would normally consider donating. Yet the Salvation Army is seeking such unwearables as it aims to save ...

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, ...

The clothing used to test the machine is more than 1,000 items from a local Goodwill that were donated but didn’t sell. Every year, 11 million tons of textiles – clothing, towels, bedding and more – ...

UMD Assistant Professor and Researcher Abigail Clarke-Sather along with her grad student, Paulo Alves, created a fiber shredder- which takes fabric samples and turns them into fluffy fibers that can ...

Experts discussed the challenges at the Textiles Recycling Expo in Charlotte, N.C.

ZHANGJIAGANG, China (AP) — In an industrial park in Zhangjiagang, a small city on China’s east coast, a large humming and hissing machine feeds on piles of used clothes and sorts them. The novelty? It ...

India’s positioning as the world’s textile recycling hub rests heavily upon the small town of Panipat, an approximate two-hour drive from country’s capital city of New Delhi. Pre-consumer textile ...

The two-story complex, to be constructed within a “derelict” former laboratory and offices on MYGroup’s existing recycling campus, will remanufacture waste textiles into new products in “a UK-first,” ...

Inside a dim recycling unit in Panipat, Haryana, 100-odd km north of New Delhi, 26-year-old Rekha Devi cuts through heaps of discarded clothes from Europe and America. The room vibrates with the sound ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — The City of Orlando will hold a free electronic waste and textile recycling event at Orlando Festival Park on Saturday, October 11, to mark Florida Climate Week. Residents and ...