Today, one of the largest international problems is textile waste. The United States Environmental Protection Agency has estimated that each year over 15 million tons of textile waste ends up in ...

EuRIC Textiles and AISBL believe Europe’s textile sorting and recycling industry is grappling with a severe crisis that is more significant than the pandemic and could lead to domino effect. The ...

The European textile sector continues to operate on largely linear production models, with around 73 % of post-consumer ...

Austrian technology provider says Redwave TEX is a sensor-based device that can sort clothing and fabric for recycling. Redwave describes its new TEX device as one that offers “a fully automated, ...

The organization says its NIR-SORT offering contains the molecular “fingerprints” of different kinds of textile fibers that can enable faster and more efficient sorting of fabrics at recycling ...

Matoha’s AI scanning tools are capable of pinpointing the composition of textile materials in under a second. Credit: Matoha/British Design Fund. Matoha manufactures AI-powered material identification ...

The companies behind SortUK, an organisation advocating domestic sorting of textiles for recycling, have claimed they have had a “positive” response from councils and waste management companies since ...

A four-alarm fire caused extensive damage last night to several debris-filled, one-story garages in a mostly abandoned industrial area of Southeast Baltimore. A textile-sorting company, the only ...

EuRIC Textiles, a branch of the European Recycling Industries' Confederation (EuRIC), and the non-profit Municipal Waste Europe (AISBL), report that Europe's textile sorting and recycling industry is ...