Global Recycling Day: Meet the design masters of upcycling
1 week, 4 days ago

Global Recycling Day: Meet the design masters of upcycling

Hindustan Times  

It is no news that the world is grappling with several environmental challenges. Designers have embraced the power of upcycled fashion Gone are the days when sustainable fashion meant compromising on style — today, it’s about giving discarded fabrics, plastics, and even metal a new life on the runway. The world celebrates Global Recycling Day today, and we throw light on the works of designers who have incorporated recycled materials in their designs to produce sustainable yet stylish garments for everyday wear. Source and upcycle Taking a modern approach, Pratyush Kumar, founder of Pieux, works with a plethora of recycled materials like Recycled plastic textile, cartex, Certified organic cotton, rose, milk, aloe vera, orange, Cupro and sugarcane textiles, Lenticular Recycled textile and donated damaged products like: Parachutes, Paraglideers, Curtains, Sarees, Blazers and shirts. Plus, recycled materials often have a lower carbon footprint, making them a more sustainable choice overall.

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The World Is in a Polyester Crisis. One Company Is Trying to Recycle a Way Out
1 month, 1 week ago

The World Is in a Polyester Crisis. One Company Is Trying to Recycle a Way Out

Wired  

I’m on an overnight flight from New York to Frankfurt, Germany, and the accoutrements given to me in business class have a sustainable sheen. Both the polyester blanket and polyester flight kit proudly claim they are made of fabric spun from recycled plastic bottles. Only a half hour outside downtown Frankfurt at a drab industrial park are Reju’s temporary office …

Watch: Solving Bengaluru’s used textile waste problem
3 months, 4 weeks ago

Watch: Solving Bengaluru’s used textile waste problem

The Hindu  

At the Textile Recovery Facility in Hirandahalli in Bengaluru, used clothes from several wards are brought there. TRF is part of a larger attempt to create a value chain for post-consumer textile waste while weaving into it alternate livelihood possibilities for waste pickers. Circular Apparel Innovation Factory or CAIF and Hasiru Dala, an NGO, in partnership with Saamuhika Shakti – …

Scientifically Speaking | New recycling technologies show promise in curbing fast fashion's environmental impact
8 months ago

Scientifically Speaking | New recycling technologies show promise in curbing fast fashion's environmental impact

Hindustan Times  

Fast fashion is a trend in which garments are produced rapidly and inexpensively to capture current trends. Clothing waste also contributes to climate change, as incinerating garments releases harmful air pollutants, and landfilled clothing emits methane. This process involves using microwave energy to quickly heat the fabrics, which helps break down the polyester into a reusable chemical called BHET terephthalate) …

Fashion Forward: Embracing Upcycled And Sustainable Clothing Trends
1 year, 7 months ago

Fashion Forward: Embracing Upcycled And Sustainable Clothing Trends

ABP News  

New Delhi: In a world increasingly focused on environmental awareness, the fashion industry is undergoing a significant transformation. The emergence of upcycled and sustainable clothing trends is reshaping the way we perceive and consume fashion. Embracing upcycled fashion: Turn trash into treasures Upcycled fashion represents a shift towards a circular economy, where discarded materials are given a new lease of …

Our Favorite Clothing Made From Recycled Materials
2 years, 2 months ago

Our Favorite Clothing Made From Recycled Materials

Wired  

I love clothes, but the fashion industry is having a crisis all on its own, on top of the trash crisis and general climate crisis we've been dealing with for decades. We can reduce our own plastic usage, especially swapping single-use plastics out for reusable items, but some fashion brands have figured out how to turn some of that trash—mostly …

Almost 80 per cent of unwanted textiles end up in landfill, a report finds
3 years, 9 months ago

Almost 80 per cent of unwanted textiles end up in landfill, a report finds

ABC  

Of almost 305,000 tonnes of textiles discarded in NSW last year, only 800 tonnes were recycled, a report has found. Key points: A report finds nearly 330,000 tonnes of textiles are imported into NSW each year, and about 305,000 tonnes are discarded About 240,000 tonnes go to landfill, while 62,000 tonnes are exported for reuse by charities Designers are urged …

Is trashion the future?
4 years, 1 month ago

Is trashion the future?

Live Mint  

"Main jaadugar hoon,” laughs Indra Kumari, adjusting her mask. For, since the day she walked into an export house seven years ago to report for her first job as a visual merchandiser and saw “pahads and pahads” of discarded garments, she made it her life’s mission to move people from a “disposable mindset to a reuse mindset”. “It took a …

Why clothes are so hard to recycle
4 years, 8 months ago

Why clothes are so hard to recycle

BBC  

Why clothes are so hard to recycle Press Association The rise of fast fashion is largely behind the growing amounts of clothing we buy and throw away each year Fast fashion is leading to a mountain of clothing being thrown away each year and has a huge impact on the environment, so can we turn our unwanted garments into something …

Our 23 Favorite Products Made From Recycled and Upcycled Materials
5 years, 11 months ago

Our 23 Favorite Products Made From Recycled and Upcycled Materials

Wired  

Humans haven't been kind to the planet. Luckily, some companies have figured out how to reuse waste to make new products from old plastic, textiles, and other materials that would otherwise fill our landfills and oceans. It's not a perfect sustainability solution, but if you already need a new portable charger or yoga mat, for example, you can buy one …

The best environmentally sustainable homeware brands
6 years, 7 months ago

The best environmentally sustainable homeware brands

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Tackling eco-friendly interiors is next on the agenda, and …

Time to sort out recycling of waste clothes
9 years, 2 months ago

Time to sort out recycling of waste clothes

China Daily  

CLOTHES AND SHOES collected from some residential communities in Shanghai have been poorly recycled according to media reports. Many so-called recycling bins are actually taken care of by garbage collectors, who resell the secondhand clothes to local flea markets or simply send them to dustbins and waste furnaces. Beijing Times on Thursday called for better management and favorable policies to …

From fashion cycle to recycle
12 years, 8 months ago

From fashion cycle to recycle

China Daily  

Janko Lam's winning designs at the Ecochic Design Award in Hong Kong in 2011 earn her a project with Esprit to make a collection from the brand's own fabric waste. "Using discarded materials really entails more discipline and creativity," Lam says by phone from Hong Kong, where she went to design school and has lived for the past 16 years. …

Living: Designs on your dustbin
28 years, 11 months ago

Living: Designs on your dustbin

The Independent  

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