Experts discussed the challenges at the Textiles Recycling Expo in Charlotte, N.C.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A worker labors at a textile sorting facility that employ's Databeyond's Fastsort-Textile AI sorting machine in Zhangjiagang in ...

The textile industry is a major polluter, producing 92 million tons of textile waste globally each year, according to Boston University. University of Minnesota Duluth associate professor Abigail ...

The clothing used to test the machine is more than 1,000 items from a local Goodwill that were donated but didn’t sell. Every year, 11 million tons of textiles – clothing, towels, bedding and more – ...

For over a decade, investment and expectations have been funnelled into textile-to-textile recycling, with a groundswell of emerging technologies promising to turn fashion’s trash back into treasure.

At recycled fiber producer Unifi’s facility in Yadkinville, North Carolina, workers pile hundreds of discarded garments onto a massive conveyor belt. As the belt lurches forward, mounds of old ...

In an industrial park in Zhangjiagang, a small city on China's east coast, a large humming and hissing machine feeds on piles of used clothes and sorts them. The novelty? It uses artificial ...