Old clothes can be tricky to recycle. If the clothes are stained or have holes in them, you can't donate them to a thrift store or charity, and it feels wasteful to throw out otherwise useful cloth.

EU-funded research is helping to turn old clothes into new, quality products, aiming to reduce textile waste and make recycled textiles the norm.By Ali JonesIn a factory in Waregem, north-west Belgium ...

You may think you’re keeping old outfits out of the landfill when you donate them, but that’s not necessarily true. Clothes await sorting before they are recycled. Though clothes ending up at a ...

In an effort to make textiles more sustainable, a new method allows researchers to break old clothing down chemically and reuse polyester compounds to create fire resistant, anti-bacterial or ...