When the small plane he was riding in flew over a closed textile factory several months ago, Bill Stangler saw two slime-covered waste lagoons on the edge of the Broad River north of Columbia. The ...

A new study from Nepal is highlighting an alarming source of pollution in one of the country's most ecologically and culturally important rivers — and fast fashion isn't helping. The Kathmandu Post ...

Tracy Meserve is a librarian at The George Washington University and The Textile Museum in Washington, D.C. Every year, a host of new sustainable fashion companies crop up, each capitalizing on ...

Microplastics, plastics less than 5 millimeters in length, are becoming a growing concern due to their ubiquity and persistence in the environment and potential effects on ecological and human health.

A textile plant that has long drawn the ire of environmentalists for its history of pollution violations along the Ogeechee River in eastern Georgia announced this week that it plans to shut down. The ...

Textile waste like cotton is barely recycled in China, where fast fashion reigns Only about 20% of China's textiles are recycled, according to the Chinese government—and almost all of that is cotton.

American Circular Textiles (ACT), a New York City-based coalition of organizations working to drive circularity in the U.S. fashion sector, submitted a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency ...

Researchers at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) are developing new ways to turn textile waste into energy and high-performance cement materials, offering sustainable solutions for two ...