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 ...

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

H&M Group’s nonprofit arm and the Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel (HKRITA) want to ramp up their game-changing textile recycling technology in Cambodia. The North Face and ...

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, ...

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 ...

ZHANGJIAGANG, China — 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 uses ...

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 ...

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 ...