The partners plan to establish the Green Machine Circular Textile Ecosystem.

As a result of the current high throughput of the fast fashion collections and the concomitant decrease in product lifetime, we are facing enormous amounts of textile waste. Since textiles are often a ...

Denovia's low-temperature depolymerization process converts contaminated textile waste into 98.3% pure monomers in minutes.

The image is split vertically down the middle. On the left side, a tube spits out discarded clothes onto a pile of other discarded clothes in a landfill. On the right side, the pump spits clothes out ...

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, textiles accounted for nearly 6 percent of the municipal solid waste generated in 2018, the most recent data available on the agency’s website.

Two new projects supported by the apparel and home goods industry aim to help India’s textile sector deal with its pre- and post-consumer waste. India is one of the world’s largest textile producers ...

Researchers present a solution to the challenging problem of recycling poly-cotton textile waste. The process starts with fully removing all cotton from the fabric using superconcentrated hydrochloric ...

A study released by London-based Systemiq claims that Europe could reach a tipping point for textile recycling where recycling polyester through depolymerization becomes more competitive than ...

The Dutch textile industry stands at a crossroads. Fast fashion and overconsumption are driving an ever-growing mountain of waste, while the Netherlands is committed to achieving a fully circular ...

Circulose is doubling down. “The first decision when choosing where to place a recycling factory is always: do you place it in the consumer markets, where there is a lot of post-consumer waste, or in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. New Zealand-based physicist & science journalist fascinated by cities The environmental impact of all this clothing is staggering.