New York-based nonprofit Fabscrap collects, organizes and repurposes textile scraps from the city’s design offices, to divert as much unused material as possible from being landfilled or incinerated.

Waste from the fashion industry accumulates in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province of China. Credit: Deng Yinming/VCG via Getty Images Earlier this May, celebrities gathered in New York City for the Met Gala, ...

There’s a movement in the fashion industry to make products from discarded textiles. Some smaller labels are the first to take the plunge. Meanwhile, the fashion industry produces mountains of its own ...

This designer developed a safer, simpler, and healthier solution to conventional fabric dye—using scraps of old fruits and veggies. Nicole Stjernsward, a London-based design technologist, has ...

Plastic waste is being recycled and developed into a new sustainable fabric by researchers in Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Recycling has been a massive thing in the entire world ever ...

The biggest brand names and retailers in New England now have more options for obtaining fabric resources. Thanks to a new FABSCRAP building, clothing sellers and designers have a more sustainable, ...

Circular economy specialist and entrepreneur Dr. Chinedu Azih is the chief executive officer of Kazih Kits Limited, which handles the production, packaging, and distribution of professional-grade ...

Every morning, Amake Yessoufou makes the rounds of the sewing workshops of Ouidah, a small coastal town in the south of Benin, and collects scraps of fabric used by tailors to make clothes. Out of ...