Pressure to address this is increasing, and regulations are tightening. By 2030, apparel and textile producers in California must join a “producer responsibility organization” that is charged with ...
More than 92 million metric tons of textile waste are created every year, clogging up landfills and incinerators or spilling into the environment. The Biomimicry Institute, a nonprofit that promotes ...
Aside from thrifting clothes, recycling fashion waste is one of the most impactful ways to tackle the mounting piles of discarded clothing and textiles that the fast fashion industry creates each year ...
Your new shirt looks good and it’s a bargain. You wear it a couple of times. You wash it a couple of times. The color starts to fade. The seams come apart. You throw it away. Fast fashion is cheap.