While fast fashion is doing numbers for the apparel industry, the quality of the products churned out to consumers is not up ...

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, up to 11.3 million ton of clothes and shoes were put in landfill in 2018, making up 7.7 percent of all municipal solid waste in landfill that ...

Lindsay Scarrow gives clothes that others have rejected a new life. Her pieces come from a rag house, which diverts millions ...

A new guide is helping brands transition to a circular design model that prioritizes sustainability, longevity, and waste ...

The poor quality of fast fashion clothing contributes to the limited lifespans of garments, which often end up decomposing slowly in landfills or being incinerated. In addition to degrading in ...

And every year, 101 million tons of clothing end up in landfills. And the trend toward fast fashion — cheap, mass-produced items that chase short-term fads — are only making us more wasteful.

inside China’s e-commerce fashion giant This is a so-called “fast fashion landfill”, where discarded or unused clothing is accumulating, reaching 39,000 tons so far, the website added.

is "the equivalent of a dump truck of clothing getting dumped into a landfill every second." There are many contributing factors. First, Jade explains, fashion corporations produce more than they ...

They use everything from old carpets that would have ended up on landfill to so-called ghost ... Prada among them – signed up to a “Fashion Pact” committing to achieving net zero carbon ...

Article continues below But campaigners warn the majority of discarded fashion is not recycled and even donated clothes often end up in landfills or being incinerated - contributing to the climate ...