Bay State Textiles serves over 180 municipalities throughout Massachusetts and Connecticut. With over 40 years of experience in the post-consumer textile waste industry, our management team can tailor a program to meet the needs of your community. We accept all clothing, footwear, accessories, and...
In Massachusetts, about 5.6 percent of all residential waste is made up of reusable textiles, such as clothes, drapes or bedspreads, according to material the company provided to the town. The vast majority of that material winds up in the trash, even though residents have opportunities to re...
It is the world's biggest textile museum located in a renovated historic mill building in Lowell, Massachusetts. The museum's beginnings can be traced to the acquisition of a Jacquard-woven portrait of navigator Christopher Columbus made in 1892. It has transformed into a nationally recognized ...
Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the US have developed a method for making a charge-storing system that is easily integrated into clothing for "embroidering a charge-storing pattern onto any garment." "Batteries or other kinds of charge storage are still the limiting ...
Zara (SA LA)'s parent company, Spain's fast fashion giant Inditex, has invested $4 million in funding for Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Massachusetts Institute of Technology to support global sustainability research projects, and hopes to apply research results to business data analysis. ...
Eastman Chemical Co.recently announced plans to “build one of the world’s largest plastic-to-plastic molecular recycling facilities at its site in Kingsport, Tenn.” The company plans to invest approximately $250 million over the next two years in the facility and “will use over 100,000 me...
Plastic recycling totals 1.5 million pounds each year. Dacon’s CEO, Kevin Quinn, states “Unitex’s long-term heritage, community focus and environmental commitment underscore their business ethics and acumen. It has been a joy working with them.” ...