That system has long been "overwhelmed." Officials propose new law that could require fashion retailers to pay for mounting ...

Aside from thrifting clothes, recycling fashion waste is one of the most impactful ways to tackle the mounting piles of discarded clothing and textiles that the fast fashion industry creates each year ...

Germany is considering a fast-fashion tax to make manufacturers contribute to disposal costs. The aim is to reduce textile ...

Textile producers in Germany may soon be required to contribute financially to the disposal of used clothing, as the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dianne Plummer is an Energy Consultant and Certified Energy Manager. This is the fourth article in the ongoing series exploring ...

SEATTLE — Many things about zero-waste designer Janelle Abbott’s relationship to the fashion industry have changed since she was a kid growing up around her parents’ Seattle clothing business. Her ...

Fashion historian Clare Sauro and journalist John Bartlett trace the hidden costs of fast fashion. From cheap, short-lived trends to mountains of textile waste dumped in Chile’s Atacama Desert, they ...

Increasingly in recent years fast fashion’s bad practices have become more and more evident. One of the key ways fast fashion brands manage to keep trend rotation super high and prices super low is ...

In artist Mandy Barker’s new book, Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype imperfections, she uses the same technique as the botanist and pioneering photographer Anna Atkins to draw attention to the ...