“AI has the potential to do something for our planet,” explains Professor Dr. Ingo Rollwagen, professor at Hochschule Fresenius, Department of Design, University of Applied Sciences, Berlin during the ...

Sweden is emerging as a hub for sustainable textiles. Following Renewcell’s recent announcement that it will open a waste-textile recycling facility in Sweden, the Swedish start-up TreeToTextile says ...

Researchers have developed an internationally significant new process for working wood cellulose into a textile fibre. New solutions for using fibre-based materials in textile processes attract global ...

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 ...

In this excerpt from his book Manufacturing Processes for Textile and Fashion Design Professionals, Rob Thompson describes the properties of plant fibers. Plant fibers, whether harvested from the seed ...

Recycling processes in sustainable textile manufacturing encompass a spectrum of mechanical and chemical techniques designed to recover value from post-consumer and post-industrial textile waste.

Post-consumer textile waste is anticipated to rise to 7.3 million tonnes by 2030. Credit: Fashion for Good. Textile waste poses significant environmental challenges in Europe, with an estimated 6.95m ...

Experts discussed the challenges at the Textiles Recycling Expo in Charlotte, N.C.

Most of the discussion in sustainable textiles has centered around the fibers–manufacturers making a switch to organic cotton, or creating fabrics from natural, easily-renewable materials like bamboo ...

A semi-industrial demonstration unit in Japan is claimed to have processed several tens of tonnes of polyester-rich post-consumer textile waste from Europe to produce the base monomer for 100% ...

Sweden is emerging as a hub for sustainable textiles. Following Renewcell’s recent announcement that it will open a waste-textile recycling facility in Sweden, the Swedish start-up TreeToTextile says ...