Textile and clothing recycling is a potentially beneficial activity from environmental, social and economic points of view, as opposed to landfilling or being used for energy. As cities increasingly divert other high-volume waste streams such as organics, the recycling of old clothes…
Hannah Oh’s sister gave her a dress from Zara for Christmas, but her sister didn’t buy it from Zara. She bought it secondhand from the retail resell site Poshmark. Oh, 19, saw the dress online and knew she wanted it,…
Thousands of garments are stored on a three-tiered conveyor system at a sorting facility for ThredUp, an online thrift store. Matt York/AP My personal law of physics dictates that if you compliment something I’m wearing, I will automatically tell you where…