Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Circ is building its first industrial-scale textile-to-textile recycling plant in France. Reju is doing the same in the ...

A combined team of chemical and biomolecular engineers from the University of Delaware, and the Center for Plastics Innovation, both in the U.S., has developed a way to chemically separate fibers in ...

The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel (HKRITA) has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with ...

MAS Holdings also joined the round to build the company's first commercial demonstration facility to recycle two types of ...

Syntetica has developed a proprietary solution capable of recycling both Nylon 6 and Nylon 6,6 from mixed textile waste in a ...

At recycled fiber producer Unifi’s facility in Yadkinville, North Carolina, workers pile hundreds of discarded garments onto a massive conveyor belt. As the belt lurches forward, mounds of old ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Esha writes about building better, more regenerative businesses. Polyester has become a popular choice globally, and may even be ...

Researchers present a solution to the challenging problem of recycling poly-cotton textile waste. The process starts with fully removing all cotton from the fabric using superconcentrated hydrochloric ...

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 ...

The apparel industry accounts for 10% of global carbon emissions. The annual amount of fiber production reached 113 million tons in 2021 and the demand is increasing every year. However, almost 90% of ...

None of these material innovators are firing on all cylinders—at least when it comes to commercial-scale plants—yet a quiet race is shaping up, if not among the companies themselves then against time ...

A resurgence of secondhand shopping, new sorting methods and policy initiatives are all poised to help shift the needle on ...