The world of textiles—which encompasses fashion and home goods—is notoriously bad for the environment. Cotton, for instance, is a water-intensive crop that is typically sprayed with pesticides, then ...
Zara has released its first collection developed with recycled poly-cotton textile waste. The fast fashion retailer teamed with textile recycling firm Circ to release a line of women’s apparel made ...
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Recover™, a leading material sciences company and producer of sustainable, premium recycled cotton fiber and cotton fiber blends, through a strategic partnership with ...
A new chemical process separates mixed textile waste and produces components that can be reused (Sci. Adv. 2024, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ado6827). After their lifetime of use, most discarded clothes ...
The basics matter. Clean Basics is a phrase coined by Arvin “the people’s friend” Goods, a company taking a new and cleaner approach to apparel production. The people at the company chose Arvin Goods ...
The stats are alarming: Each American, on average, sends almost 65 pounds of clothes to the landfill every year. If you are dropping your used stuff off at Goodwill or selling it on eBay, you are part ...
The clothing industry has a serious waste problem. According to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, the fashion industry used 53 million tons of new fibers to produce clothing in 2015. McKinsey & Company, ...