Although present in much of the clothing we wear on a daily basis, elastane is incredibly difficult to recycle. Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) have uncovered a novel ...
The Northern Berkshire Solid Waste Management District is hosting a Zero Waste Day with community paper shredding and a textile collection from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, May 21, at the Department of ...
Investing in a textile shredder is a strategic move for businesses involved in textile manufacturing, recycling, and waste management. GEP Ecotech offers a range of robust and efficient shredders ...
WENZHOU, China — At a factory in Zhejiang province on China’s eastern coast, two mounds of discarded cotton clothing and bed linens, loosely separated into dark and light colors, pile up on a workroom ...
A worker feeds discarded textiles to a shredding machine at the Wenzhou Tiancheng Textile Company, one of China’s largest cotton recycling plants, in Wenzhou in eastern China’s Zhejiang province on ...
WENZHOU, China — China is the world’s largest textile producer and consumer, throwing away 26 million tons of clothes each year, mostly made of unrecyclable synthetics. A recycling factory in Zhejiang ...
Kelly Cobb stands on a stepstool to reach the square opening atop a tall blue machine in the Sustainable Textile Research through Applied Discovery (RAD) Lab at the University of Delaware. Carefully, ...