Fast fashion has emerged as a profitable strategy to drive massive sales, bombarding consumers with a never ending variety of new clothes at cheap prices. Fueled by the pressure to showcase new ...

Atmos reports on the fashion industry's profound waste problem, driven by overproduction and overconsumption, harming global ...

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 ...

The event, observed on 30 March every year, aims to cast a spotlight on the environmental and social repercussions stemming from the industry's tendency towards mass production and consumption. The ...

The fashion industry has a very well-known waste problem. Almost all (roughly 97%) of clothing eventually ends up in a landfill, according to McKinsey, and it doesn't take very long for the lifecycle ...

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, ...

A design and research team from the College of Human Ecology has found an answer to the one of the textile industry’s greatest problems. The problem is textile waste and the answer the Fiberizer v.2, ...

Cheap clothes and online retailing mean people are buying — and discarding — more garments than ever before. BRUSSELS — Europeans’ soaring appetite for fast fashion — accelerated by the ease of online ...

Researchers at the UNSW Sustainable Materials Research and Technology (SMaRT) Centre have published new findings ...

French firm Reju to invest $390 million in a textile regeneration hub in Rochester, New York, expected to create 70 jobs by ...