A company in eastern China is using an artificial intelligence-powered machine to sort clothes and boost recycling.
ZHANGJIAGANG, China (AP) — 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 ...
The textile industry is a major polluter, producing 92 million tons of textile waste globally each year, according to Boston University. University of Minnesota Duluth associate professor Abigail ...
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 ...