More than 92 million metric tons of textile waste are created every year, clogging up landfills and incinerators or spilling into the environment. The Biomimicry Institute, a nonprofit that promotes ...

Pressure to address this is increasing, and regulations are tightening. By 2030, apparel and textile producers in California must join a “producer responsibility organization” that is charged with ...

We must look at how materials break down at end of life to incentivise a truly circular fashion industry, writes Amanda ...

A week ago, Yerba Madre, the organic drink brand formerly known as Guayaki, presented with a sly flourish a pair of Dirt shoes that resembled little more than cracked, molded pieces of muck ...

Aside from thrifting clothes, recycling fashion waste is one of the most impactful ways to tackle the mounting piles of discarded clothing and textiles that the fast fashion industry creates each year ...

A study from Boston Consulting Group has concluded that there's up to $150 billion in textile waste currently in landfills. But that doesn't mean all hope is lost for the fashion industry. MR Magazine ...

Fashion historian Clare Sauro and journalist John Bartlett trace the hidden costs of fast fashion. From cheap, short-lived trends to mountains of textile waste dumped in Chile’s Atacama Desert, they ...

It's no secret that fashion has a waste problem. The industry is estimated to generate over 101 million cubic tons of waste every year, including textile scraps, microplastics, chemical waste, and ...

SEATTLE — Many things about zero-waste designer Janelle Abbott’s relationship to the fashion industry have changed since she was a kid growing up around her parents’ Seattle clothing business. Her ...