Category: Recycle
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3 Companies Leading the Way in Circular Fashion
Upcycled fashion can be a beautiful and sustainable solution for the textile industry Every second, a truckload of textiles is landfilled. These three companies have taken on the challenge to turn waste into wonderful sustainable fashion. EEDEN: A Seed to End the One-Way Street Eeden, a German startup, has developed an innovative process to recycle…
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Six Simple Ways to Fill Your Wardrobe with Sustainable Clothing
Sarah Lees, University of South Wales The environmental impact of fashion waste is overwhelming. Every year the UK alone sends 350,000 tonnes of clothing to landfills. And as the majority of garments are made from oil-based materials like polyester – 22.67 billion tonnes of polyester clothing is produced every year worldwide – they aren’t going…
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San Francisco’s Answer to Fast Fashion: A Zero Textile Waste Initiative
Fifteen years after the Zero Waste Textile initiative started in San Francisco in 2003, the city has diverted 80 percent of all waste generated in the city away from landfill disposal through source reduction, reuse, recycling, and composting programs—the highest rate of any major U.S. city according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Although there is still…