Electronic waste can sometimes find a surprising second lease on life, as designer Tina Sparkles has proved by making a dress using recycled wires. "I read how e-waste is being shipped to developing ...

Will chemical recycling revolutionize the fashion industry, or is it just “an excuse to keep producing plastic clothes”?

If you buy this new blue dress from H&M once it hits stores in March, it might be made in part from a pair of jeans that you recycled last year. The retailer is the first to use a new material called ...

I was inspired by the theme of 'make do and mend' from the 1940's. It compliments the contemporary issue of recycling in current fashion. I used chenille on the bodice to create a 4-layer ripped ...

Inspired by recycling, it uses an old swimming costume for the bodice and various recycled materials for the skirt. The lower skirt seam is hooped using a wire washing line. The cool colour scheme is ...

We’re used to tossing our cardboard boxes and aluminum cans into the recycling bin, where they can be infinitely recycled back into new boxes or cans. But when we’ve worn out an old T-shirt, there’s ...

H&M introduces a new sustainable material called Bionic, made of offshore plastic waste, shown here in the new Conscious Exclusive pink Bionic dress. (Photo: Courtesy of H&M) For H&M‘s new Conscious ...