While you can donate old T-shirts and jeans, you’re likely to just toss your used socks in the trash. But now, Smartwool wants you to give them your old socks—from any brand—so that they can recycle ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm a freelance writer specializing in retail and ecommerce. Americans alone toss out up to 11.3 million tons of textile waste ...

What comes after Earth Day? An avalanche of socks. A North Carolina nonprofit called Material Return has teamed with Smartwool, a major American clothing producer, to collect 400,000 pairs of socks ...