"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." You know all about the three R's — reduce, reuse, recycle — but when it comes to applying them to a daily ...

Growing mountains of textile waste are hard to recycle. There is scope to improve chemical and mechanical recycling methods but consumers and fashion brands play a ...

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 ...

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 JonesIn a factory in Waregem, north-west Belgium ...

Girlfriend Collective, the activewear brand that makes its garments from recycled plastic bottles, has developed a programme to collect its used garments from customers and turn them into new ones.