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 – ...

“I had done a lot of mid-infrared spectroscopy throughout my career; I thought NIR would be a slightly different part of the spectrum,” Amanda Forster, a materials research engineer and textile ...

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 ...

On paper, it looks like a circular solution to fast fashion’s waste problem. But in reality, each step carries its own ...

Austrian technology provider says Redwave TEX is a sensor-based device that can sort clothing and fabric for recycling. Redwave describes its new TEX device as one that offers “a fully automated, ...

The organization says its NIR-SORT offering contains the molecular “fingerprints” of different kinds of textile fibers that can enable faster and more efficient sorting of fabrics at recycling ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Bangladesh’s garment industry stands at a critical turning point. For more than three decades, the country built its economic success on low-cost manufacturing, efficient exports, and strong ...

Every year, 11 million tons of textiles — clothing, towels, bedding and more — end up in landfills in the United States. It’s a staggering number, especially since only about 1% of textile waste is ...