An annual campaign that encourages people to buy pre-loved items over new ones, Second Hand September is a great initiative to help you move away from fast fashion. It's also a good time to consider ...

MADRID/LONDON, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Zara owner Inditex ITX.MC, the world's biggest clothing retailer, has agreed to buy recycled polyester from U.S. start-up Ambercycle, the companies said on Wednesday.

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Timo Rissanen is a founding board member of the Union of Concerned Researchers in Fashion. Today we make more clothing than ever before. And the driver for this is primarily economic, rather than ...

When Katie Lopes set out to create a women’s underwear brand, she wanted her products to be comfortable and hip—and eventually disappear into a pile of coffee grounds, eggshells, and potato peels in ...

Industry Insight from Ethical Corporation Magazine, a part of Thomson Reuters. Legislation in EU and U.S. states will make textile producers responsible for life cycle of products Just 1% of clothing ...

When it comes to clothing, being both environmentally-conscious and fashion-conscious can be tricky – the one emphasizes reusing and recycling, while the other is all about casting things off as soon ...

The clothes we wear come with their own environmental baggage. Consider that a cotton T-shirt requires roughly 700 gallons of water to produce. Each year, the production of polyester emits roughly 1.5 ...

Like white T-shirts and sweats, there are tons of possibilities and options when shopping for workout gear, from the questionably cheap to the luxuriously overpriced. Among them, though, are a handful ...

You need to look very closely along shorelines to see them. Plastic fibres less than 5mm long, barely visible to the naked eye. Millions of tonnes of these microplastics are contaminating marine life ...