In Zhangjiagang, China, a cutting-edge machine is transforming the textile recycling industry by sorting used clothes at unprecedented speeds. This innovative technology utilizes artificial ...

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, ...

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 ...

Amsterdam-based Fashion for Good has launched its Sorting for Circularity USA report. The report covers consumer disposal behavior, textile waste composition and the potential for fiber-to-fiber ...

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 – ...

On paper, it looks like a circular solution to fast fashion’s waste problem. But in reality, each step carries its own devastating cost on the Panipat’s people and its environment.

PARIS — Europe’s ambitions to build a circular textile economy face steep economic and structural challenges, according to a new report by Boston Consulting Group and upcyling initiative ReHubs.

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 ...

PARIS — Italian legwear and swimwear brand Calzedonia is taking on one of fashion’s most overlooked waste problems — discarded tights — with the launch of Life Re-Tights, a textile-to-textile ...