Textiles & Sustainable Fashion
Reducing Fashion's Environmental Impact
Estimates show that approximately 85 percent of textile waste in the U.S. ends up in a landfill or is incinerated. But this doesn’t have to be. REMADE℠ is working to address the issues associated with “fast fashion.”
Textile Waste Generation is growing
- U.S. Textile waste generation has tripled since 1990
- Continued growth is expected
- More than 75% of textile waste is apparel and footwear; the balance includes towels and bedding, carpet, other home goods, and institutional textiles
- Current recycle of textiles (2 million tons)
- ~45% re-use
- ~30% wiping rags
- ~20% stuffing, shoddy
- Less than 1% of textile fibers are recovered and recycled as fiber
U.S. EPA Facts & Figures, 2018 data in 2025 report
Our Goals
Double the recycling rate
Develop fiber-to-fiber recycling technologies
the Baseline
17 MILLION TONS of textile waste was generated in the U.S. in 2018
2 million tons recycled through re-use and downcycling
14.7% Recycling Rate
U.S. EPA Facts & Figures, 2018 data in 2025 report
