"The working environment is insufferable," Ramesh Chawdhary, a senior official in the Haryana labor department, told The ...

Is the term a matter of semantics? Or does the industry need to rally around a more accurate description of the problem?

Pigments are uncommon in the textile industry because, unlike dyes, they are insoluble in water and need a binder to stick to ...

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 ...

The new Vermillion sheeting collection is made with 52 percent polyester infused with CiClo technology and 48 percent modal.

Textiles, including clothing and household items such as towels, are piling up in landfills nationwide, with California alone generating more than one million tons of textile waste each year. But ...

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.

Textile waste like cotton is barely recycled in China, where fast fashion reigns Only about 20% of China's textiles are recycled, according to the Chinese government—and almost all of that is cotton.

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 ...

New research shows darker textile colors, particularly purple and green, accelerate microplastic release from synthetic ...

More than 30 villagers, including many women, staged a violent protest against a textile factory in Neemuch, Madhya Pradesh, concerned about potential pollution to Morvan Dam. They clashed with ...