Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When the small plane he was riding in flew over a closed textile factory several months ago, Bill Stangler saw two slime-covered ...

Pollution released from our textiles is smaller and more irregular in shape than previously thought, according to new research led by The University of Manchester. In a study published in Scientific ...

The governments of Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan and Vietnam are throwing their support behind a $43 million program, phased in over five years, that will tackle chemical pollution in textile ...

On a sunny September afternoon in Manhattan, a couple of days before the start of Climate Week NYC, a Sourcing Journal reporter went hunting for a mound of textile waste. This was trickier than she ...

Textiles, including clothing and household items such as towels, are piling up in landfills nationwide, with California alone generating more than one million tons of textile waste each year. But ...

Most individuals are unaware that post-consumer textile pollution is a serious public health hazard and an issue of tremendous environmental racism that disproportionately affects communities in the ...

Timo Rissanen, a fashion and textiles researcher, and associate professor at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, said it is technically possible for the fashion industry to combat the ...

Natural fibers promoted as sustainable alternatives to plastic, including cotton and wool, have been found preserved in a U.K. lake for more than a century—challenging assumptions that they quickly ...

American Circular Textiles (ACT), a New York City-based coalition of organizations working to drive circularity in the U.S. fashion sector, submitted a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency ...

Textile waste like cotton is barely recycled in China, where fast fashion reigns Only about 20% of China's textiles are recycled, according to the Chinese government—and almost all of that is cotton.