Alicia Robles grew up watching her mother make wedding dresses and other clothes in southern Mexico. As a girl, she watched and learned, but she didn’t get back into sewing until she had her own ...
Molly Fitzpatrick is a textile designer and founder of DittoHouse, an Ohio-based home textile brand for ethically produced textiles. Having designed textiles for a wide variety of markets, including ...
Textile waste is a major environmental threat. Here’s what’s being done about it. Hand holding clothing tag with textile waste in background. Behind the convenience and flashiness of fast fashion lie ...
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EU research is helping to turn old clothes into new, quality products, aiming to reduce textile waste and make recycled ...
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As far as the T2T Alliance-T2T being short for textile-to-textile, as in recycling-is concerned, the European Union's ecodesign for sustainable products regulation has one massive flaw: it doesn't ...
A seasonal closet clean-out becomes a reckoning with the global crisis of textile waste, prompting columnist Leslie Kouba to search for responsible ways to keep discarded clothes from ending up in ...
BOSTON - Tossing that old mattress or unwanted T-shirt in the trash is now illegal in Massachusetts. The state is expanding its waste disposal bans to include two materials that should be recycled ...
The RealReal examined data from the Environmental Protection Agency and the United Nations to explore the impact of fast fashion. - Polonio Video // Shutterstock The RealReal examined data from the ...
Behind the convenience and flashiness of fast fashion lie its unsustainable practices and ecological consequences, from the making of plastic-derived textiles to its disposal. According to the ...