Radici InNova's patented process uses selective dissolution technology to treat mixed textile waste and recover both its nylon and Lycra fibers.

UC Riverside chemical engineering researchers have completed construction of a multi-kilogram-scale biomass processing ...

"Our vision is to free humanity from textile waste." Gong Dong-hwan, head of Textaily, explained the corporations vision this way. Textaily, founded in 2024, chemically separates waste textiles and ...

Although present in much of the clothing we wear on a daily basis, elastane is incredibly difficult to recycle. Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) have uncovered a novel ...

Is it possible to recover plastic recyclates from previously unused waste streams in order to produce high-quality fibers and ...

According to one estimate, 66 percent of post-consumer textile waste ends up in landfills, 19 percent is combusted, and just 15 percent is recycled. Moreover, since the 1960s, the country has seen a ...

Today, one of the largest international problems is textile waste. The United States Environmental Protection Agency has estimated that each year over 15 million tons of textile waste ends up in ...

The textile recycling firm Infinited Fiber plans to spend $420 million to convert a paper mill in the Lapland region of Finland into the firm’s first commercial-scale plant. Infinited says the ...

The towers of old clothes reach almost to the ceiling of the 200,000-square-foot hall. Forklifts rumble across the concrete floor, squeezing between the stacked bales of jeans, jackets, sweaters, and ...

To Jon Buchan, Sawgrass Sustainable LLC truly is a technology company that happens to ply its craft in the polymers industry. “Where we excel is in conserving our planet’s precious resources,” he says ...

The year saw recycled polyester stalled, while cotton held value-though forensic DNA tracking redrew the line between claims and evidence.