The Download: recycling clothing, and fish-friendly hydropower

Photo: Old Dominion Landfill, Henrico Virginia, November 21, 2013. Photo credit: Bill McChesney via Flickr. CC BY 2.0. Article by Rhiannon Williams. MIT Technology Review: The Download – July 4, 2024.

A polyester-dissolving process could make modern clothing recyclable

The news: Less than 1% of clothing is recycled. 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 clothing into reusable, recyclable parts without any sorting or separation in advance. […]

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