Make decluttering your closet worth the hassle by selling your gently used clothes online or recycling them for a discount on ...

A "fix it" revolution is leading everyday people to take things into their own hands and divert material from landfills with ...

Keeping Devices Plugged In When Not in Use Let's be real, how many chargers do you have plugged in right now that aren't ...

Clothes and other textiles are among the materials that we are the worst at recycling. But this may change. Researchers have developed a new technology that can separate out fibers in mixed fabrics.

Image-based sexual abuse is a concerning and growing problem. While anyone can be victimized, 90% of victims of image-based ...

The Atacama desert in Chile is one of the most beautiful and forbidding places on Earth, so dry that it’s sometimes used by scientists to test run Mars missions. Most years the area sees less than ...

BATAM - The Batam Customs and Excise Office has acted against used apparel being imported as passenger carry-on baggage, recording 682 packages confiscated in 2025 as of Dec 8. The modus operandi is ...

Indonesia bans secondhand clothes imports due to health, environment, and harm to local textile industry, but illegal smuggling persists, often via major seaports. Finance Minister Purbaya Yudhi ...

JAKARTA – In Indonesia, it is illegal to import second-hand clothes, for health and economic reasons. But this has not stopped syndicates from taking advantage of the country’s porous borders, weak ...

Until the late 2000s, when people started realising the quality in used clothes imported from abroad, okrika sellers, or bend down boutique, as they are called in local parlance, was mainly for the ...

Some used clothes can be donated or resold. But if an item is misshapen, stained or torn, it could end up in a landfill. Target is aiming to stop that trajectory with a new do-good program. Its ...

The world of tools is populated by a vast and incredibly diverse group of gadgets and devices. From basic hand tools, like screwdrivers, pliers, and ratchets, to more advanced tools like impact ...