NEWS 04 July 2024 Fast fashion creates millions of tonnes of waste each year — could clever chemistry help to tackle the problem? Helena Kudiabor Piles of discarded clothes wait to be sorted at a textile-recycling factory in Taiwan.Credit: Annabelle Chih/Getty Researchers have developed a chemical-processing technique that can break down fabrics into reusable molecules, even when they contain a mixture of materials.The process, outlined in a Science Advances paper on 3 July1, shows that chemical...