Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. New Zealand-based physicist & science journalist fascinated by cities The environmental impact of all this clothing is staggering.

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 ...

WENZHOU, China — At a factory in Zhejiang province on China’s eastern coast, two mounds of discarded cotton clothing and bed linens, loosely separated into dark and light colors, pile up on a workroom ...

Each year, more than 60 percent of textiles produced globally are made from blended fibers, yet less than 1 percent of these materials are effectively recycled. The issue stems from the source, of ...

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

Mountains of clothes piling up in Swedish recycling centres are sparking calls for fashion firms to take responsibility for textile waste Sweden's recycling centres are overflowing with clothes after ...

What Is the Textile Waste Crisis? The fashion industry’s boom has come at a steep environmental cost. Each year, around 92 million tonnes of textile waste are produced worldwide — much of it ending up ...

I’ve seen it up close: mothers washing clothes in streams tinted with dye, fishermen pulling lifeless fish from once-clear lakes, and streets transformed into rivers when discarded fabric blocks the ...

In a paper published in Nature Communications, researchers at the Industrial Sustainable Chemistry group of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) present a solution to the challenging problem of recycling ...

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, textiles accounted for nearly 6 percent of the municipal solid waste generated in 2018, the most recent data available on the agency’s website.