Look through your closet and you’d be hard-pressed to find a fabric that is not a blend of multiple fibers. The most common is a cotton-polyester blend: a soft comfortable material that is cheap to ...

Likewise, if the clothes you are getting rid of are dirty or stained, they may not be suitable for donation or recycling.

Buttons, zippers and threads literally hold garments together, but they also disrupt preprocessing that needs to happen at ...

Clothes and blankets, it turns out, can keep you warm in more than one life. That beloved sweatshirt that kept you warm through college but now has holes and stains is not necessarily destined for the ...

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 ...

Chemical sorting can be utilized to selectively collect polyester from waste plastics and textiles. In the product stream, clean polyesters are obtained because the process eliminates colorants and ...

A consortium spanning seven European countries has launched the TexMat initiative to develop a deposit-return system for used ...

A new startup is revolutionizing how textile and plastic waste are recycled, cutting costs and improving efficiency.

The organization installed 4,500 pounds of discarded clothing outside the California state capitol building in Sacramento on Thursday.

A Virginia, United States-based clean technology startup is applying its unique hydrothermal processing technology to treat previously hard-to-recycle textiles made out of blends of polyester and ...