A triad of Chinese government agencies said this week that the country aims to recycle 25 percent of all its textile waste and produce 2 million tons of recycled fiber by 2025 as part of an effort to ...

U.S. companies may be moving away from China to other locations elsewhere in Asia, the Pacific and closer to home in pursuit of bargain priced sourcing and speedier delivery, but China is still the ...

WENZHOU, China (AP) — China is the world’s largest textile producer and consumer, throwing away 26 million tons of clothes each year, mostly made of unrecyclable synthetics. A recycling factory in ...

A worker feeds discarded textiles to a shredding machine at the Wenzhou Tiancheng Textile Company, one of China’s largest cotton recycling plants, in Wenzhou in eastern China’s Zhejiang province on ...

At a factory in Zhejiang province on China’s eastern coast, two mounds of discarded cotton clothing and bed linens, loosely separated into dark and light colors, pile up on a workroom floor. Jacket ...

An outdoor digital display illustrating "The Story of Ramie" sprawls across the facade of the Science History Institute in Philadelphia. China today is one of the world’s largest textile manufacturers ...

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China intends to keep making low-tech goods alongside its push into advanced technology. That's bad news for advanced and developing economies alike. Despite rising labor costs and less enthusiasm for ...