RIT-GIS research engineers develop automated system to dismantle used clothing for high-quality textile recycling. AI and laser technology identify and remove non-recyclable elements like zippers, ...

ZHANGJIAGANG, China (AP) — 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 ...

On paper, it looks like a circular solution to fast fashion’s waste problem. But in reality, each step carries its own ...

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 – ...

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

Socks with holes, moth-eaten sweaters and ripped T-shirts—these aren’t the kinds of garments one would normally consider donating. Yet the Salvation Army is seeking such unwearables as it aims to save ...

“I had done a lot of mid-infrared spectroscopy throughout my career; I thought NIR would be a slightly different part of the spectrum,” Amanda Forster, a materials research engineer and textile ...

SuperCircle is chipping away at its goal to divert more than 1 billion textile products from landfills by 2030.

The fashion industry has come under fire of late for its outsize impact on the environment. From cradle to grave, it accounts for between 4% and 10% of the world’s carbon emissions and around 20% of ...

Databeyond's Fastsort-Textile AI sorting machine process synthetic textile at high speed at a textile sorting facility in Zhangjiagang in eastern China's Jiangsu province on March 20, 2026. — AP ...