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

Joe Whitten, Co-Founder and CEO of Apparel Impact, is on a mission—to focus on reuse, recycling, upcycling, and downcycling ...

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UC Riverside chemical engineering researchers have completed construction of a multi-kilogram-scale biomass processing ...

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, ...

One of the pain points that has thwarted textile-to-textile recycling at scale is the preponderance of elastane that’s ...

Until now, old clothes have mainly been incinerated. Using adapted processes from paper production, it is possible to recover ...

PARIS, Sept. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Reju™, the purpose-driven, leading textile-to-textile regeneration company, is using augmented reality (AR) to give Climate Week NYC 2025 attendees and the city ...

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 ...

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 ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. PARIS, Sept. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Reju(TM) , the purpose-driven, leading textile-to-textile regeneration company, ...