A new chemical process separates mixed textile waste and produces components that can be reused (Sci. Adv. 2024, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ado6827). After their lifetime of use, most discarded clothes ...

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Research published by the United Nations Environment Programme in March showed that 92 million tons of textile scrap is produced globally each year. Meanwhile, Ellen MacArthur Foundation research ...

EU research is helping to turn old clothes into new, quality products, aiming to reduce textile waste and make recycled textiles the norm. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news ...

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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, ...

Re&Up Recycling Technologies is a company with no time to waste. Or textiles, for that matter. By 2030, the Sanko Group spinoff aims to hit an annual recycling capacity of 1 million metric tons. That ...

Full Circle: Circularity efforts are moving past the trial phase. Accelerating Circularity, an advanced textile-to-textile polyester recycling project backed by Amazon and Zalando, debuted its first ...

UC Riverside chemical engineering researchers have completed construction of a multi-kilogram-scale biomass processing facility that transforms forestry and agricultural biomass waste into pulp that ...