As more countries ban waste imports, plastic waste generators like the US will need to find better solutions. A few states ...

Your favorite pair of jeans may have traveled around the world through cotton farms, dye houses, wash facilities and factories before ending up in your closet. The denim may have never been ...

In years past, the U.S. was referred to as "King Cotton" for its prodigious output of the fiber wanted by the rest of the world. The "Plant Not Plastic" initiative may see a rebirth of that sentiment.

Most debates about textile waste start at the closet, or at the donation bin. But a closer look at a basic cotton T-shirt ...

The Bezos Earth Fund has awarded $34M in four grants to develop sustainable, plastic-free textile fibres, including cotton ...

There’s a familiar story about fashion and the environment. We buy too much and we throw it away too quickly. Mountains of discarded clothes end up in landfills or shipped to dumps in West Africa.

British demand for everyday global commodities can be linked to more than 29,000 hectares of deforestation worldwide in a single year, with tens of thousands of hectares stripped directly from ...

A new life cycle assessment (LCA) of US cotton fibre production has been released, providing updated data on environmental impacts across the early stages of the cotton supply chain. The study was ...

A team of researchers at Clemson University has been awarded $11 million to study and develop materials that are helping fuel a more sustainable fashion industry worldwide and a more dynamic ...