Similarly, while it's not impossible to recycle items with fasteners, such as zips and buttons, it is trickier and more ...

Wondering what to do with old clothes? Before tossing them in the trash, consider clothes recycling. Your outdated and discarded wardrobe could end up like the 2.5 million tons of textiles that were ...

Sometimes our closets and dressers seem like they’re brimming with clothing. Despite this, we might find ourselves feeling like we have nothing to wear. Both situations signal it might be time for a ...

Cleaning out our closets is a great opportunity to get our space organized, remove items that are out of style or ill-fitting and make room for new items. But when making bags of items we no longer ...

One of the biggest challenges to recycling textiles is removing impurities and extra material like zippers, buttons and ...

COMMERCE, Calif. (KABC) -- Homeboy Industries is not only finding ways to provide new lives for those who were incarcerated or formerly in gangs. It's also giving second chances to old clothing, using ...

The towers of old clothes reach almost to the ceiling of the 200,000-square-foot hall. Forklifts rumble across the concrete floor, squeezing between the stacked bales of jeans, jackets, sweaters, and ...

In California, it’s relatively easy to recycle aluminum cans, newspapers or glass bottles. But for one of the most commonly used household products — clothes — options are few. Related Articles ...

Discarded clothing is an environmental scourge. But across Europe, companies are†joining forces to†build new technologies that could make recycling scalable. (Dreamstime/TNS) At the height of the ...

Old clothes piling up? Wardrobe feeling a little out of date? It happens to everyone. But what to do with those unwanted shirts, pants, dresses and shoes? California has a new answer. On Saturday, Gov ...