Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the United States, textile waste grew 80 percent since 2000 — four times greater than the overall waste stream. To turn the ...

If you’ve recently visited a biennial or attended an art fair, museum, or gallery show, you’ve probably noticed that textiles are showing up everywhere amid a surge of interest in the medium. It has ...

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According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, textiles accounted for nearly 6 percent of the municipal solid waste generated in 2018, the most recent data available on the agency’s website.

California’s landmark textile reuse and recycling bill was quietly signed into law over the weekend, making the state the first in the nation to implement a fashion- and textile-focused extended ...

OXFORD — Textile waste has become a large part of the mountains that make up landfills and one local resident is leading an effort to decrease at least that part of contributions to trash collections.

Textile Hive, which preserves the late Andrea Aranow’s influential fashion designs and international sewing material collections, is exhibiting Aranow’s counterculture garments worn by 1960s’ musical ...

About 92 million tons of textile waste are thrown away each year around the world. In Nairobi, a group of young designers wants to raise awareness about waste textiles while also showing the value of ...

October is Portland Textile Month and you’re invited to see exhibits displayed in windows or outdoor spaces throughout the city as well as participate in virtual workshops and talks to learn from ...

It's now against the law in Massachusetts to throw out that used Halloween costume, ripped T-shirt or moth-eaten sweater. Starting today, Massachusetts residents must recycle their old clothing and ...

From the fashion and textile heritage in Banana Island, Lagos, to the “Excavated Periwinkle” Nembe People of Niger Delta, the maiden edition of “Telling Textile Tales” conference sought to interrogate ...