Aside from thrifting clothes, recycling fashion waste is one of the most impactful ways to tackle the mounting piles of discarded clothing and textiles that the fast fashion industry creates each year ...

The fashion industry has a very well-known waste problem. Almost all (roughly 97%) of clothing eventually ends up in a landfill, according to McKinsey, and it doesn't take very long for the lifecycle ...

Every year, fashion chains in Europe destroy between four and nine percent of unsold clothes. Most often, these are pieces that are still in boxes from the factory. Although this practice is invisible ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dianne Plummer is an Energy Consultant and Certified Energy Manager. This is the fourth article in the ongoing series exploring ...

Your new shirt looks good and it’s a bargain. You wear it a couple of times. You wash it a couple of times. The color starts to fade. The seams come apart. You throw it away. Fast fashion is cheap.

In artist Mandy Barker’s new book, Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype imperfections, she uses the same technique as the botanist and pioneering photographer Anna Atkins to draw attention to the ...