"Textiles has just been off everybody's radar." A recent study in Ontario concluded 85 per cent of discarded textiles end up in a landfill site, meaning just 15 per cent are recycled or reused.

The Secondary Materials and Recycled Textiles Association (SMART) is calling on local officials in the US to promote the ...

Denim can be used in home insulation. Leftover fabric scrapes become paper money. Wool textiles are used for baseball and softball filling. Pillows and stuffed toys can be used in automotive ...

What do puppy collars and battery fire prevention have in common? The answer is California businesses working towards a ...

Thanks to “fast fashion”—the availability of trendy, low-quality clothing designed to be worn and discarded—North Americans send a staggering 10 million tonnes of textiles to landfill each year. Naomi ...

According to one expert, it would be an effective tool for addressing textile waste. “I think if we had an effective EPR program for textile waste here, as they do in other places around the world, ...

In Brandon, 1.4 million kilograms of textiles are bought annually and 85% goes into the landfill Darren Bernhardt · CBC News · Posted: Jun 24, 2018 7:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: June 24, 2018 ...

Markham’s textile recycling program diverted 1.4 million kilograms of clothes from landfill in less than a year May 17, 2017 2 min read ...

Textile recycling beginning in Cartier Municipality is first in rural Manitoba to join in Diabetes Canada program By: Andrea Geary Posted: 12:31 PM CST Monday, Dec. 17, 2018 ...