Companies with strict standards about chemicals in their products are wary about using recycled material they can’t control. Ikea and H&M just ran a large study on recyclable fabrics to figure out the ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--H&M is joining forces with artist M.I.A. for the retailer’s latest sustainable campaign, World Recycle Week, an ambitious Garment Collecting movement. From April 18 th to ...

The demand for textile recycling is increasing due to environmental, economic, and regulatory factors. As global textile use and fast fashion expand quickly, large quantities of textile waste are ...

H&M made its name selling huge volumes of low-price, fast-fashion items. Now the apparel behemoth is stepping up its efforts to sell secondhand clothing and charging shoppers to repair or rent used ...

The current domestic textile-handling system is economically at odds with market and regulatory realities, according to an ...

H&M Group has entered a multi-year partnership with Circulose, a manufacturer of next-generation material made entirely from discarded textiles, to become one of the company’s first “scaling partners.

The state Department of Environmental Conservation estimates the market value of discarded clothing is nearly $130 million and recycling efforts could create more than 1,000 jobs in the state. U.S.

Even the most eco-minded fashion companies have had a hard time figuring out how to recycle mixed-fiber textiles (you know, like poly-cotton blends). Now, fast fashion giant H&M may have cracked the ...

Polymer-based-or plastic-synthetic materials have a hold on the fashion industry, currently making up about two-thirds of all fibers used in textiles with no signs of slowing down. At the same time, ...

As far as the T2T Alliance-T2T being short for textile-to-textile, as in recycling-is concerned, the European Union's ecodesign for sustainable products regulation has one massive flaw: it doesn't ...