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 ...
Reuse and repair provisions are part of these states' proposed textile EPR bills. Meanwhile, California is mulling three ...
The public Telavalue research project at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland sees textile recycling as a massive opportunity for the whole of Europe. It explains recycling technology is advancing ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...