For more information, you may also contact the USAG Italy solid waste/recycling compliance manager, Kurt Brownell, DSN 637-8266, comm. 0444-61-8266, or Kurt.A.Brownell.civ@mail.mil.

PORTSMOUTH — City residents may apply for and receive 2010 stickers to use at the recycling center behind the Department of Public Works facility at 680 Peverly Hill Road by filling out an ...

Americans send 10.5 million tons of clothing to landfills every year. Can for-profit recycling companies turn those rags into riches?

The Council for Textile Recycling says that the United States generates an average of 25 billion pounds of textiles a year in the form of clothing, shoes, accessories and more, which comes out to ...

Clothing and plastics are also related from the perspective of the Department of Sanitation. An average consumer throws away 81 pounds of clothing every year and 150 water bottles in that same time.

The recycling rate was just 15.2 percent, with 2.6 million tons recycled. Old clothing is shredded to produce yarn.

H&M, Levi Strauss and Bestseller, an international clothing chain based in Denmark, have committed to incorporating Circulose into their clothes. (In 2021, Levi’s debuted a capsule collection of ...