Textiles must be treated not as donations or waste diversion programs, but as engineered industrial feedstock. By Christina ...

Fast fashion has emerged as a profitable strategy to drive massive sales, bombarding consumers with a never ending variety of new clothes at cheap prices. Fueled by the pressure to showcase new ...

EU lawmakers gave a final green light Tuesday to a law on slashing back the mountains of food wasted in Europe each year, and curbing the environmental impact of so-called fast fashion. Brussels ...

Kenya and other African nations are being overwhelmed by imported textile waste. Synthetic textiles are largely made up of plastic fibers and can contain toxins ranging from PFAS to phthalates. They ...

What Is the Textile Waste Crisis? The fashion industry’s boom has come at a steep environmental cost. Each year, around 92 million tonnes of textile waste are produced worldwide — much of it ending up ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zoe is a business growth expert covering sustainable fashion & retail. This month, France continued its war on fast fashion with ...

People offload bales of secondhand clothes from a truck at the Kantamanto market in Accra, Ghana, on November 16, 2023. Editor at Large We’ve all done it: dropped a bag of torn tees and threadbare ...

France is taking aim at fast fashion, especially from China — © AFP Christophe ARCHAMBAULT France is taking aim at fast fashion, especially from China — © AFP ...

Food waste awaiting treatment in a compost and biogas factory in Stains, north of Paris Bags of textile waste, seen in Paris in March 2025 EU lawmakers gave a final green light Tuesday to a law on ...