The clothing used to test the machine is more than 1,000 items from a local Goodwill that were donated but didn’t sell. Every year, 11 million tons of textiles – clothing, towels, bedding and more – ...

ZHANGJIAGANG, China — In an industrial park in Zhangjiagang, a small city on China's east coast, a large humming and hissing machine feeds on piles of used clothes and sorts them. The novelty? It uses ...

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A machine uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to sort used clothes by composition at high speed, showing how AI could reduce the impact of synthetic textile waste. The Fastsort-Textile machine was one ...

A worker labors at a textile sorting facility that employ's Databeyond's Fastsort-Textile AI sorting machine in Zhangjiagang in eastern China's Jiangsu province on March 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Ng Han ...