Image Workers trying on jeans at a factory in Tianjin in 1987. The loosening of clothing norms was critical to China’s opening up to the West.Credit...Imago/Alamy Under the rule of China’s top ...

Nowhere is the problem more pressing than in China, the world’s largest textile producer and consumer, where more than 26 million tons of clothes are thrown away each year, according to ...

There are clothing collection bins dotted all around China’s major cities, but few of the garments go to charity. Some are sold to developing countries, others are either burned or buried in ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - From cutting salaries and bonuses and asking staff not to wear expensive clothes and watches ... highest-paid workers in communist China and their wealth and flashy ...

At a factory in Zhejiang province on China's eastern coast, two mounds of discarded cotton clothing and bed linens, loosely separated into dark and light colors, pile up on a workroom floor.

WENZHOU, China — At a factory in Zhejiang province on China’s eastern coast, two mounds of discarded cotton clothing and bed linens, loosely separated into dark and light colors ...