textile waste
What Coats Digital Is Doing to Whittle Down Waste
With up to 80 percent of fashion manufacturing outlay attributed to fabric costs, digitizing related…
Why This NYC Startup Is Making ‘Near-Seasonless’ Compostable Garments
"The answer isn't to stop purchasing clothes and put millions of people out of work, but to disrupt an…
Momentum Grows for Scaling Textile Recycling in Europe
Recover™ is committed to build the systems, standards and capacity required to address growing textile…
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Patagonia Tees Up New Clothes Made From Customer Castoffs
The outdoor company is working with Infinited Fiber Company to take back old T-shirts to regenerate into new…
Is Fashion Waste Fueling Cambodia’s ‘Blood Bricks’ Industry?
Fashion waste from Cambodian factories is enveloping workers in toxic plumes and driving up carbon emissions…
Burberry Donates Fabric to Nurture Future Talent
The British luxury label has dropped another lot of excess fabrics through its ReBurberry Fabric program for…
XDD Debuts Closed-Loop System to Bring Denim Waste Back to Life
XDD Textile is making new strides in circularity with its closed-loop system using the XDD Sewage Recycle…
ThredUp, Rent the Runway, The RealReal Rally For Reuse Reform
Eleven reuse and rental providers have banded together in the hopes of coalescing around a vision for textile…
How Eileen Fisher is Helping Fashion Nip Its Waste Problem In the Bud
The new Hey Fashion! platform breaks down the fashion industry's problem of textile waste into tangible…
Zara Supplier Picks Site for $420 Million Fiber Factory
Infinited Fiber will convert a building housing a discontinued paper production line into an Infinna fiber…
Critic Says Shein’s $50 Million Textile-Waste Solution Isn’t Enough
"Shein is the first brand we've talked to that has admitted that their clothes may be ending up in…
Recover Partners With Sysav to Scale Post-Consumer Waste Recycling
Sysav will start to supply post-consumer waste, made up of 95 percent cotton, to Recover for fiber…
Fashion Industry, We Must Prepare for New Regulations
Policy changes at the European and national levels will deeply affect the textile sector. Is the industry…
China Aiming to Recycle 25 Percent of Textile Waste by 2025
By 2030, China wants to have in place a system to achieve a recycling rate of 30 percent for waste textiles…
Evrnu Develops Fiber Made From 100 Percent Textile Waste
Evrnu has launched the fiber with a premium T-Shirt made of 100 percent NuCycl r-lyocell by designer Carlos…