With the increasing awareness on the importance of sustainability, several global garment brands, including Hennes & Mauritz (H&M), Walmart and luxury brand Stella McCartney, have started promoting sustainable fashion for reducing the ...
Tags: Recycling Apparels, Apparel
This March 2013, more than 100 Indian textile producers in DELHI and more than 200 in SURAT attended the seminars organized by the French Trade Commission-Ubifrance & UCMTF (the French Textile Machinery Manufacturers’ Association), ...
Tags: Textile Firms, Textile
American Textile Recycling Service is excited to bring its textile recycling mission to the Nashville Earth Day Festival, Saturday, April 20th at Centennial Park in Downtown Nashville. A free, family-oriented event, the Nashville Earth ...
Tags: Textile
Paul Doertenbach from I:Co presented the ambitious plans for closed-loop clothing recycling with their partners Puma, H&M and Jack & Jones in 48 countries at the recent Textile Waste workshop in Tallinn. In their German facility they are ...
Tags: recycle clothing, clothing, Textile
The Green Inventors Competition, part of the Sustainable Living Festival, invites RMIT students and recent graduates to present their ideas for a sustainable future. Bachelor of Design (Industrial Design) graduate Ms McDonell won the ...
Tags: RMIT students, Green Inventors Competition, sustainable future
Sophia Bush, Emmy Rossum , Orlando Bloom , Miranda Kerr and Helen Hunt were among the guests who joined H&M and Global Green USA to celebrate their partnership and the kickoff of H&M's global garment recycling program at Global Green's 10th ...
Europe is failing to manage its resources sustainably, unnecessarily sending valuable materials to incineration and landfill, according to a report published by Friends of the Earth Europe. The European Union currently landfills and ...
Tags: Europe, Recycles, Textile Waste
H&M is the first fashion company to launch a clothing collecting initiative worldwide.From February 2013,customers will be able to hand in used garments in H&M stores in all 48 markets.Sustainability is an important part of H&M's ...
Tags: sustainability, environmental responsibility, defective garments
Closer partnerships between textile recyclers, local authorities and waste management companies can play a major role in diverting greater volumes of discarded clothing and household textiles from landfill, delegates at the UK’s ...
Tags: United Kingdom, Textile Recycling
Clothes, shoes, bags and belts will get a new lease on life, through reuse, as thousands of residents in the Newtown Township and Newtown Borough begin a pilot curbside textile-recycling program. All of this easy-greenness is due to an ...
Tags: lease on life, Newtown Township, textile-recycling program
The Swiss specialty chemicals group Clariant announced the introduction of a new service called ONE WAY that helps textile mills, brands and retailers measure the impact of their textile solutions on the environment, resource and climate. ...
Tags: Clariant, Swiss specialty chemicals, chemical, RSL
New research from Waste and Resources Action Programme(WRAP)suggests it's time to unlock the potential economic value of discarded textiles thrown out by consumers for waste collection. The new report reveals that consumers are throwing ...
Tags: WRAP, Textile Recycling, waste collection