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Your clothes can have an afterlife: Strategies for greater reuse and recycling of textiles

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Only about 15% of used clothes and other textiles in the United States get reused or recycled. The other 85% head straight to the landfill or incinerator. This wastes scarce resources, contributes to climate change and pollutes waterways.

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Your clothes can have an afterlife: Strategies for greater reuse and recycling of textiles

Only about 15% of used clothes and other textiles in the United States get reused or recycled. The other 85% head straight to the landfill or incinerator. This wastes scarce resources, contributes to climate change and pollutes waterways.

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Your Clothes Can Have an Afterlife

Only about 15% of used clothes and other textiles in the United States get reused or recycled. The other 85% head straight to the landfill or incinerator.

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NIST broke the news on Monday, May 9, 2022.
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