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San Francisco Launches City-Wide Zero-Waste Textile Recycling Initiative
Photo by Shutterstock San Francisco is about to get even greener. Although the California city diverts about 80 percent of its waste from landfills, it still bins than 39 million pounds of clothing...
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Goodwill San Francisco Launches Tech-Enabled Textile-Recycling Bin
Goodwill of San Francisco has launched what it’s calling the world’s first tech-enabled textile-recycling bin. Designed to make donating clothes, shoes, household linens, and other textiles as easy...
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H&M Launches First Products Derived From Garment-Recycling Initiative
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Olivia Wilde, A.K.A. “Princess Layers,” Wants You to Recycle Your Clothes
You don’t have to leap over tall buildings in a single bound to be a superhero. Actress Olivia Wilde, in her crime-fighting guise of Princess Layers, has teamed up with H&M and DoSomething.org to...
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Timbuk2 Launches “Life Cycle” Program to Reduce, Repair, Recycle
Timbuk2 is going beyond the three R’s of sustainable design. The California-based company announced Tuesday the launch of a new environmental responsibility initiative to not only reduce, reuse, and...
View ArticleAtlanta Secondhand-Goods Store Parodies Pharrell Williams’s “Happy”
Finally got Happy out of your head? Used Clothes Are Not Trashy, a cover of Pharrell Williams’s infections earworm by Atlanta’s Garson & Shaw, will keep you clapping along to the benefits of...
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The “Rag Bag” Encourages Shoppers to Donate Unwanted Clothes
Donate something old every time you buy something new—that’s the philosophy behind the “Rag Bag,” a dual-function shopping carrier designed to make it easy for consumers to recycle unwanted clothes....
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Fake Clothing Drop-off Bins Are Making a Profit From Your Donations
Generous clothing donors in New York City have been getting duped lately, mistakenly “donating” their gently used items into bins run by for-profit companies. The New York Times, as well as a bevy of...
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These Yummy Treats Want You to Donate Your Old Clothes
Don’t let your clothes become food for moths when they can warm the needy. That’s the message behind a series of witty posters that reimagine castoff garments a hamburger, a cupcake, and two pieces of...
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Benedict Cumberbatch Wants You to Give Up Your Clothes for Charity
Brace yourself, Cumberbabes and bitches: Benedict Cumberbatch just pulled a Mr. Darcy. No, the Sherlock actor isn’t angling for a part in another adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. (The 1995 TV...
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JetBlue Recycles Used Uniforms, Saves 18.5 Tons of Fabric From Landfills
Photo by Chris Parypa Photography/Shutterstock JetBlue is going out with the old, in with the new. The airline, which overhauled its uniforms in June, announced Tuesday that it has donated more than...
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This Machine Lets You Recycle Plastic Bottles Into Clothes at Home
Wish sorting your plastic empties was more…glamorous? Hungarian designer Kovács Apor imagines a future where we routinely transform plastic bottles into clothes, right in the comfort of our homes....
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Zero Waste Scotland Announces Fund for Sustainable-Fashion Designers
Zero Waste Scotland has announced a new fund to encourage Scottish fashion designers to develop their own closed-loop clothing. Financed in part by the Scottish government, the Circular Economy...
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Levi’s, SF 49ers Transform 12 Tons of Denim Into a “Field of Jeans”
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At Sweden’s Filippa K, Sustainability is the Guide to Fashion Growth
Swedish design brand Filippa K launched three new inspiring sustainability concepts last week that truly consider the environmental implications of their designs. These new concepts include garments...
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H&M, Kering, Worn Again Team Up to Close the Loop on Textiles
Photo by Shutterstock H&M and Kering are ready to close the loop on textiles. The world’s second-largest fashion retailer linked arms with the French luxury conglomerate on Wednesday to announce...
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The North Face Wants to Recycle 100,000 Pounds of Textiles
Clothing recycling just got a whole lot easier, thanks to a nationwide roll-out of “Clothes the Loop,” a take-back/recycling program designed by The North Face to divert textiles from the landfill....
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Do You Have What It Takes to Cut the Waste Out of Fashion?
Ecouterre is the official media sponsor of the 2015/16 EcoChic Design Award. From East to West, the biggest competitive search in history is now on for emerging designers who have the talent and...
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“Give Back Box” Turns Old Shipping Cartons Into Goodwill Donations
The Los Angeles startup Give Back Box has made donating goods to charity an absolute no-brainer. Already owning a successful fashion ecommerce site called StyleupGirl, entrepeuner Monika Wiela wanted...
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You Can Now Drop Off Your Unwanted Clothes at Any Levi’s Store
Need to free up some closet space? With the expansion of Levi Strauss’s clothing-recycling scheme, you can now drop off your unwanted clothing and shoes—regardless of brand—at any Levi’s mainline and...
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