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Lycra, Radici Behind Recycling Breakthrough for Mixed-Fiber Textiles
Radici InNova’s patented process uses selective dissolution technology to treat mixed textile waste and recover both its ...
Chelsea Hylton is a web producer for CBS Los Angeles. An Inglewood native, Hylton has her master's degree from USC. She covers local breaking news across the Southern California region. Before joining ...
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Why Creating the World’s First Stretch Nylon is ‘Like the Moon Landing’
One of the pain points that has thwarted textile-to-textile recycling at scale is the preponderance of elastane that’s ...
Amsterdam-based Fashion for Good has launched its Sorting for Circularity USA report. The report covers consumer disposal behavior, textile waste composition and the potential for fiber-to-fiber ...
Each year, the global fashion industry generates more than 200 billion pounds of textile waste, with fast fashion alone contributing to around 10% of global carbon emissions. Overproduction to satisfy ...
Every year, millions of tons of textiles are wasted during the fashion industry’s design and production processes. Typically, that excess, unused material ends up in landfills, releasing greenhouse ...
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Why small trims are a big problem for textile-to-textile recycling
Buttons, zippers and threads literally hold garments together, but they also disrupt preprocessing that needs to happen at ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The city of Troutdale is partnering up with organizations nationwide to launch a new textile recycling program. The WM ReTRN (Recovering Textiles Right Now) Program is geared ...
To become a Vogue Business Member and receive the Sustainability Edit newsletter, click here. The European Commission last week released its proposal for an extended producer responsibility (EPR) ...
Norway-based Tomra and London-based Globuc hosted a webinar Feb. 7 to discuss scaling global textile circularity. The webinar corresponded with the release of Tomra’s white paper, “Transforming ...
Although present in much of the clothing we wear on a daily basis, elastane is incredibly difficult to recycle. Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) have uncovered a novel ...
Today, one of the largest international problems is textile waste. The United States Environmental Protection Agency has estimated that each year over 15 million tons of textile waste ends up in ...
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