Every year, the textile industry uses 1.3 trillion gallons of water to dye garments – enough to fill 2 million Olympic-sized swimming pools. Most of this water, loaded with harmful chemicals and dyes, ...

When the small plane he was riding in flew over a closed textile factory several months ago, Bill Stangler saw two slime-covered waste lagoons on the edge of the Broad River north of Columbia. The ...

A textile plant that has long drawn the ire of environmentalists for its history of pollution violations along the Ogeechee River in eastern Georgia announced this week that it plans to shut down. The ...

The same water sources that factories discharge into are the ones local communities and workers rely on for drinking, washing ...

Innovative programme will promote cleaner production techniques in the Buyuk Menderes river basin With the Buyuk Menderes river facing increasing water risks, WWF-Turkey and the South Aegean ...

A major textile manufacturer has pledged to permanently stop using so-called “forever chemicals” at its plant in northeast Georgia to resolve a lawsuit over pollution in Alabama’s Weiss Lake. The ...

On a sunny September afternoon in Manhattan, a couple of days before the start of Climate Week NYC, a Sourcing Journal reporter went hunting for a mound of textile waste. This was trickier than she ...

Microplastics, plastics less than 5 millimeters in length, are becoming a growing concern due to their ubiquity and persistence in the environment and potential effects on ecological and human health.

FOREARTH aims to eliminate virtually all water usage from fabric printing and contributes to lowering the environmental impact of the fashion industry Development Background Traditional analog textile ...

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