Yesterday, Open House New York concluded its year-long series, Getting to Zero exploring New York City’s waste management system. Getting to Zero: Zero Waste Guidelines revealed to its audience that ...

Interior design for a long time has been based on trends and not responsibility. Homes and offices are redesigned every few decades, furniture replace.

The innovative designer behind zero waste start-up Shelly Xu Design would eliminate a seam here, reshape a pattern piece there, and lay them out in a puzzle-like fit that cuts out any excess. She’d ...

Climate refugees — earning four times the local hourly wage in Bangladesh — are behind this new zero-waste jacket. Calling women the “unsung heroes” behind the global fashion industry, Shelly Xu, ...

Addressing the critical issue of waste in the fashion industry, AquaAI's platform assists designers in crafting unique styles with minimal waste NEW YORK, NY, UNITED ...

Sustainable sourcing and manufacture, zero waste sampling, inclusive design and the ethical work place are overiding topics in the graduate fashion design courses. In Elizabeth Shane Quinn’s classes ...

Making clothes is notoriously wasteful. Fabric comes in large bolts which are then cut into pieces to be sewn into a garment, but the process typically wastes about 15% of the material. When you ...

NEW YORK, May 18, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Center for Architecture is proud to announce the opening of Designing Waste: Strategies for a Zero Waste City on Thursday, June 14 at 6:00 pm. The ...

Every day, 24,000 tons of waste leaves New York City. A third of it is traditional recycling material—metal, plastic, glass, cardboard and paper—roughly half of which gets recycled. Another third is ...