These are topsy-turvy times for the nascent textile recycling industry. The clothing behemoth H&M Group has cofounded a textile recycling firm that promises to become a huge global producer just as ...

Many people donate and resell used clothing. But what about that single sock, the ripped stuffed animal, or those shirts with the sweat-stained collars? Those lower-quality textiles often end up in ...

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 ...

Norway-based Tomra and London-based Globuc hosted a webinar Feb. 7 to discuss scaling global textile circularity. The webinar corresponded with the release of Tomra’s white paper, “Transforming ...

Our campus is proud to have a textile recycling/donation bin conveniently located adjacent to the East Campus Garage, next to the Amazon Locker. In November 2022, Massachusetts implemented a ban on ...

Polyester is one of the biggest sustainability challenges in the textile industry. It does not disintegrate, and while it's in nearly 60% of clothing, only 1% of textile waste is recycled into new ...

Seen as something of a holy grail of circularity, textile-to-textile recycling remains a hot topic, as evidenced by multiple discussions on the subject at the recent Textiles Recycling Expo in ...

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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 ...

Circ’s new $500 million facility in Saint-Avold, France, is set to become the world’s first industrial-scale plant dedicated to recycling polycotton textile waste—a feat long considered impossible at ...