Applied Market Information (AMI) will host the inaugural US edition of its Textile Recycling Expo at the Charlotte Convention ...

Take-back recycling programs make it easy to send old clothes, household textiles and even underwear to find a second life and stay out of landfills.

There are other textile recyclers like Syre and RE&UP. Scientists are also developing new chemical recycling methods at the University of Delaware and elsewhere.

A new report from the UK Fashion and Textile Association (UKFT) outlines plans for a national textile recycling hub in the UK ...

Companies that sell more than $1 million worth of products in California will be mandated to help fund the state’s textile recycling efforts, “for those materials to be sorted and then reused, whether ...

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, ...

California becomes first state to implement mandatory clothing recycling program 02:10. California is the first state to hold textile and fashion companies responsible for their products from ...

Many garments are made of a mix of natural and synthetic fibers. Once these fibers are combined, they are difficult to separate. This presents a problem for recycling, which often needs textiles ...

From an operational perspective, it’s feasible: Fashion for Good research found that 56% of post-consumer textiles are suitable for fiber-to-fiber recycling. This same report shows a $1.5 ...

Salmon and Egan hope this method can make textile-to-textile recycling easier, cutting down on the estimated 50-90 million tons of textile waste that’s discarded globally each year.

The boxes are run by Helpsy, which collaborated with Boston Public Works to begin a recycling initiative of textile and clothing boxes in fall of 2020. Now, the city has over 20 drop-boxes in ...

More information: Nienke Leenders et al. Polycotton waste textile recycling by sequential hydrolysis and glycolysis. Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-55935-6 , www.nature.com ...