A brief guide to clothes recycling – sustainability expert unpicks how your discarded garments get processsed

Growing mountains of textile waste are hard to recycle. There is scope to improve chemical and mechanical recycling methods but consumers and fashion brands play a role in reducing overproduction.

Sajida Gordon, Researcher for the Clothing Sustainability Research Group and Lecturer Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham Trent University • conversation
March 20, 2024 • ~6 min

Green jobs are booming, but too few employees have sustainability skills to fill them – here are 4 ways to close the gap

Green jobs go beyond solar panel installation and wind turbine maintenance. They’re found in fields from design to economics and in many types of management.

Karen C. Seto, Professor of Geography and Urbanization Science, Yale University • conversation
Jan. 5, 2023 • ~9 min

Green jobs are booming, but too few employees have sustainability skills to fill them – here are 4 ways to get training

Green jobs go beyond solar panel installation and wind turbine maintenance. They’re found in fields from design to economics and in many types of management.

Karen C. Seto, Professor of Geography and Urbanization Science, Yale University • conversation
Jan. 5, 2023 • ~9 min

Sustainable fashion expert: why I'm cutting my wardrobe down to ten items this month

‘Fashion fasts’ are a great way of challenging fast fashion by helping us question how many clothes we really need and reducing fashion consumption.

Amber Martin-Woodhead, Assistant Professor in Human Geography, Coventry University • conversation
March 1, 2022 • ~6 min

'Plastic-free' fashion is not as clean or green as it seems

While natural fibre textiles like cotton have generated an environmentally friendly reputation in recent years they might be just as bad as microplastic textiles like polyester and Nylon.

Kieran Phelan, PhD Researcher in economic geography, University of Nottingham • conversation
June 2, 2020 • ~6 min

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