Recycling Powerhouse Ltd. was established in July 2026 to industrialize, standardize and scale textile recycling. Based in Switzerland, the venture will operate a franchise-driven business model that ...

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 ...

Seen as something of a holy grail of circularity, textile-to-textile recycling remains a hot topic, as evidenced by multiple discussions on the subject at the recent Textiles Recycling Expo in ...

Textiles are the sleeping giant of the recycling industry. Every year, Massachusetts residents and businesses throw out an astonishing 230,000 tons of textiles, including clothing, shoes, handbags, ...

Globally, it is estimated that 85 percent of textile materials end up in landfills—equating to millions of tons per year in landfilled material in the U.S. alone. According to Amelia Trumble, ...

The image is split vertically down the middle. On the left side, a tube spits out discarded clothes onto a pile of other discarded clothes in a landfill. On the right side, the pump spits clothes out ...

Here’s what brands should know about the state’s landmark regulations, which require producers to assume responsibility for ...

Recycling old clothes isn’t always straightforward, but there are programs that are making it so much easier to keep apparel, shoes and accessories from ending up in landfills. Ahead, I delve into the ...

Growing textile consumption and waste volumes in Europe are a global problem. In fact, Europe generates 7 to 7.5 million tons of textile waste per year, of which only 30 percent is collected. Today, ...

Serial investor and entrepreneur Mark Cuban recently took a stake in a company addressing the massive problem of textile waste. Cuban offered to invest $300,000 in Retold Recycling in exchange for a ...

Pakistan is a dumping ground for post-consumer textile waste. In 2021, the European Union exported $46 million of used clothing to the country, according to the Pakistan Institute of Development ...

Only about 15% of used clothes and other textiles in the United States get reused or recycled. The other 85% head straight to the landfill or incinerator. This wastes scarce resources, contributes to ...