Textile waste landfill

Recycled Cotton paper is made from t-shirt and denim scraps, diverted from the 10.5 million tons of clothing waste Americans send to landfills every year.

Bria Mitchell: Recycled Fashion/ Landfills. landfill sites are a threat to the local water supplies. When it rains, water drains into through the waste and collects hazardous chemicals along the way. All this water collects at the bottom of the landfill and can be up to 200 times as toxic as raw sewage. This has a high affect to water system and it becomes an issue to provide fresh clean water in areas.

Fast fashion is a textile waste of disposable fashion. This 'waste couture' thrives on a toss away culture of consumerism and disposability.

To be super clear, a brand is only “sustainability” if it's lowering the carbon footprint of its fabric mills.

BBC Earth tells you all about about where your returned goods end up and what can be done to combat this unnecessary and damaging waste.

Liz Ricketts is a fashion designer, educator and founder of The Or Foundation . Her work looks at overconsumption and overproduction within the fashion industry, and attempts to engage people in alternatives. In 2011, with her partner Branson Skinner, she founded The Or Foundation, which aims to li

Inexpensive, low-grade clothing enables Americans to cram their closets. Unfortunately, much of that cheap apparel wears out and is thrown away, making up about 5 percent of landfills. Follow the p…

Are our donated clothes really being recycled? Landfills receive millions of tons of textile waste each year because there isn’t enough demand for donated clothing. So how can we reuse and repurpose our old fabrics?

Once upon a time, there were two fashion seasons a year—spring/summer and autumn/winter; now fashion changes every week, thanks to fast fashion stores that keep churning out affordable apparel and bring catwalk styles to the public in a matter of weeks. Many of us are happy to pick up a HK$49.90 top, wear it once, and forget about it, but do we ever pause to think about what prices we are actually paying for fast fashion? Today’s Treasure, Tomorrow’s Trash The fashion industry by…