Scientific American

JUNE 17, 2025

also moved to restrict microplastics in textiles and introduced a rule requiring that clothing come with a “passport” that gives shoppers a detailed rundown of a product’s life cycle, including its origins, manufacturing process, environmental footprint, and safe disposal or recycling instructions.

Upcycling

Scientific American

JUNE 17, 2025

Some are challenging to measure, and some even “trade off” against one another—for instance, recycled materials are good for resource use but are potentially more likely to increase microfiber shedding. report, at most 1% of textiles is recycled back into clothing. Collection and Sorting • Per a 2020 U.N.

Recycling

Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

To address ghost gear in North America, the Canadian government joined the GGGI in 2018 during the G7 meeting, followed by the United States government, the world’s largest economy and a major fishing nation, in 2020. This way, nets will be collected for recycling and kept out of Mexican and U.S.

Ocean