SHIVAMOGGA: Turning waste into value is a skill, and turning it further into something beautiful is a craft. It’s this gift to see beauty and art in things normally considered waste that propelled ...

LAGOS (Reuters) - Marcellina Akpojotor weaves past thumping sewing machines, and leaves a Lagos shop with a bag brimming with discarded fabric. The colourful pieces, which would typically be burned or ...

TIRUPUR: Students of NIFT-TEA College of Knitwear Fashion exhibited garments and home textile products made of fabric waste on the college campus on Tuesday. As many as 90 first-year apparel ...

Your future T-shirts might be made from potato peels, wheat straw, trees, or even former T-shirts instead of virgin cotton. In Finland, a startup has developed new technology that can transform ...

Growing up on Taiwan’s west coast, Eddie Wang saw discarded oyster shells everywhere. Instead of viewing it as waste, some of his neighbours burned oyster shells and pasted them onto the wall. The ...

Every morning, Amake Yessoufou makes the rounds of the sewing workshops of Ouidah, a small coastal town in the south of Benin, and collects scraps of fabric used by tailors to make clothes. In the ...