COVID-19 worsened the textile waste crisis. Now it's time for the fashion industry to address this spiraling problem, say Geoffrey Jones and Shelly Xu. COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a ...

Estonian designer Reet Aus has spent more than a decade turning factory waste into new garments.

The discovery could see waste plastic bags being turned into sportswear. Due to its structure, fabric spun from polyethylene could keep a wearer cool by allowing heat to escape, but it's been largely ...

Technology adoption in the fashion industry value chain is certainly accelerating. The Covid pandemic made it very clear that brands, sourcing houses and manufacturers needed to rapidly adopt digital ...

A team of researchers may have found a groundbreaking solution to one of fashion's biggest sustainability problems. By turning farm waste into sustainable fabric, it's solving multiple problems with ...

Kelly Cobb stands on a stepstool to reach the square opening atop a tall blue machine in the Sustainable Textile Research through Applied Discovery (RAD) Lab at the University of Delaware. Carefully, ...

Deadstock has long been an ugly but open secret for fashion, with massive amounts of excess fabric sitting in factories and unsold merchandise sent to a landfill or burned. Today, it’s a trending ...

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has identified fashion as the second-most-polluting industry on the planet, which has drawn worldwide critical attention to the enormous ...