100 Years of Recycling Clothing: Introducing Italy’s Textile Town

Don’t toss that old tee shirt! We’re traveling to the “Textile Town” in Italy where they’re recycling fabric to give new life to your old duds, and threading the needle to a brighter, more sustainable future.

What becomes of your favorite shirt when a spaghetti sauce stain makes it no longer wearable? Globally, we humans toss over 92 million tons of textile waste per year, 1 but thankfully, our world is beginning to shift into a new mindset when it comes to creating less waste.

By Renee Laroche-Rheaume

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