Each year, millions of tons of clothes wind up discarded in donation bins or, worse, the trash. A chunk of the clothing that gets donated or tossed is often still wearable — save for unsightly ...

Americans send 10.5 million tons of clothing to landfills every year. Can for-profit recycling companies turn those rags into riches?

The sustainably savvy shopping habits of the pandemic are here to stay, according to eBay, with 28 million pre-loved fashion items given a new home so far this year. Saving 17,771 tonnes, the ...

Kids go through tons of clothes. ... resulting in clothing clogging landfills or ending up in the ocean. “We found ourselves wanting to teach our kids about why we don’t treat our clothes like ...

It's an illegal landfill, ... The United Nations found that Chile received 126,000 tons of used clothing in textiles in 2021. ... African countries like Senegal and Ghana have similar problems.

And every year, 101 million tons of clothing end up in landfills. And the trend toward fast fashion — cheap, mass-produced items that chase short-term fads — are only making us more wasteful.

China's landfills receive 26 million tons of clothing annually, with textile recycling factories struggling to keep up due to the dominance of fast fashion.

The sustainably savvy shopping habits of the pandemic are here to stay, according to eBay, with 28 million pre-loved fashion items given a new home so far this year. Saving 17,771 tonnes, the ...

Saving 17,771 tonnes, the equivalent weight of 1,404 double decker buses of fashion items going to landfill, eBay is encouraging consumers to continue buying and selling second-hand items to help ...