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It’s 2026 and fast fashion is out! Your favorite fashion brands should let you recycle your old clothes. We are better off donating and recycling our garments than throwing them into landfills.

Zips, buttons, and labels all stand in the way of recycling our clothing. But removing them can be time, cost, and labor-intensive.

A new factory operated by Renewcell, a textile recycling company in Sweden, is the first step in turning old clothes into new, high-quality fashion. About a half-dozen start-ups around the world are ...

The towers of old clothes reach almost to the ceiling of the 200,000-square-foot hall. Forklifts rumble across the concrete floor, squeezing between the stacked bales of jeans, jackets, sweaters, and ...

Goodwill of the Finger Lakes is working with Reju and other companies to reduce the amount of clothing and other textiles that end up in landfills.

EU-funded research is helping to turn old clothes into new, quality products, aiming to reduce textile waste and make recycled textiles the norm. By Ali Jones In a factory in Waregem, north-west ...

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 ...

Many people have extra clothing that they do not wear taking up valuable space in their closets. Whether it's seasonal wear that you need to store, items that are damaged or the wrong size, or ...

People are putting items like nappies, food and clothing in their recycling bins, and waste officials have urged them to do ...