The main challenge is a lack of recycling infrastructure for textiles. Current technology only allows less than 1% of clothing to be recycled into new apparel, Francois Souchet, who leads the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Make Fashion Circular program, told CNN Business. ...
“In order to recycle paper, you have to sort of chop it up and mix it with water, and every time you chop it up, you cut the fibers a little bit,” Alexander said. “Recycling paper is not an infinite loop. Every time we recycle it, it gets a little bit shorter, so we ...
In fact, the look was hot off the summer runway. Designed by British luxury streetwear brand Charles Jeffrey Loverboy as part of its latest menswear line, the dress shirt came deliberately entangled with the frock. The post-punk-inspired collection ...
Textile-to-textile recycling can be a challenge, she adds, due to the high-performance standards of the company’ssneakers. “More than 90% of all new running shoes of Asics contain recycled materials in their uppers, but finding solutions for the midsoles, it’s much more complicated,” sh...
Green imagerypairs environmental visuals with a company, like images of green plants, solar panels, recycling symbols, or endangered animals like polar bears on a product. An example of this is in the 1980s, theplastics industry altered the public domain triangular recycling symbolto include number...
The textile industry produces more than 40 million tons of synthetic fabrics each year. Every load of laundry sheds millions of microfibers, and not all of them are filtered at wastewater treatment plants. The potential effects of such particles accumulating in our food chain are still worr...
of fashion waste forecast for 2030 is 148 million tons and the vast majority of clothing waste ends up in landfills or is incinerated (the equivalent to arubbish truck full of clothesis dumped in landfill every second). Globally, only 20% of clothing is collected for reuse or recycling. ...