Credit: Erha Andini A new chemical process separates mixed textile waste and produces components that can be reused (Sci. Adv. 2024, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ado6827).

Piles of discarded clothes wait to be sorted at a textile-recycling factory in Taiwan. Credit: Annabelle Chih/Getty Researchers have developed a chemical-processing technique that can break down ...

Less than 1% of clothing is recycled, and most of the rest ends up dumped in a landfill or burned. A team of researchers hopes to change that with a new process that breaks down mixed-fiber ...