Bottles and bags, food wrappers and straws. Piping, packaging, toys and trays. Plastic is everywhere — and yet some people may be surprised at how much they actually wear. A typical closet is ...

It would seem unlikely for clothing designers to get their wheels turning by thinking about what happens to garments when people are through with them, but that’s exactly the sort of backward ...

(CBS DETROIT) - Cheaply made clothing is piling up in landfills, and experts are now alarmed by another way the fast-fashion industry is impacting the environment. Consumers may not realize that ...

Research suggests that billions of plastic microfibers shear off of our clothing every day — when we wear them, when we wash and dry them. And even more microplastics are released upstream ...

(Ocean Wise) Still, he admits he is an outlier when it comes to doing something about micro-fibre pollution from clothing. "Climate change is the biggest thing I talk about with a lot of my ...

The results of this study show that the method developed is suitable for properly measuring and distinguishing between the two polymer types most commonly used in clothing: polyester and nylon ...

Clothing is a major pollutant in our landfills and that's because a lot of fibers are made up of plastics. Valhalla Clothing Resale is similar to national programs like Rent the Runway. "Those ...

“Everyone who wears and launders clothing is part of this problem but everyone who wears and launders clothing can be part of the solutions,” said Rachael Z. Miller, founder of Vermont-based ...