Ordinary-looking fabric can be used to filter out and destroy incredibly toxic materials, even when they’re only present in tiny amounts, according to new research. Ordinary-looking fabric can be used ...

LAGOS (Reuters) - Marcellina Akpojotor weaves past thumping sewing machines, and leaves a Lagos shop with a bag brimming with discarded fabric. The colourful pieces, which would typically be burned or ...

Every morning, Amake Yessoufou makes the rounds of the sewing workshops of Ouidah, a small coastal town in the south of Benin, and collects scraps of fabric used by tailors to make clothes. Out of ...

COVID-19 worsened the textile waste crisis. Now it's time for the fashion industry to address this spiraling problem, say Geoffrey Jones and Shelly Xu. COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a ...

The discovery could see waste plastic bags being turned into sportswear. Due to its structure, fabric spun from polyethylene could keep a wearer cool by allowing heat to escape, but it's been largely ...

India is one of the largest contributors of tailoring waste, as bespoke tailoring is popular Nobody has data on the amount of textile waste generated in Tamil Nadu but one just needs to visit dump ...