Fashion trends die quickly, but old clothes can live for years. Nearly every garment eventually winds up burned for fuel or ...

Are you decluttering your closet soon? Do you have old clothes you no longer wear? Please don’t throw them away. We found 17 stores where you can recycle your old clothes and maybe get rewarded.

Clothes and fishing nets that are made of nylon often end up in landfill or dumped in oceans, but a new way to break down the ...

Today, only a fraction of all textiles are recycled. Katarina Lindström wants to change that. Her doctoral thesis in Textile ...

Charities in the South West are finding it harder to recycle excess clothes they cannot sell in their shops and get an income ...

The problem is that “93 per cent of all recycled textiles today comes from plastic bottles, not from old clothes”, said Urska Trunk of campaign group Changing Markets. In other words ...

The large amounts of waste and pollution caused by the industry has put the need to recycle clothes on the top, but only now are simple tasks like pulling the sole off a shoe being done by machines.

Despite the promises of eco-friendly brands to recycle their customers' returns, old clothes rarely get refurbished. A report by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation found that, globally, less than 1% ...

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The Dutch fashion industry has not yet gotten its recycling systems in order. Since the start of this year, the industry has ...