text:  Are you someone who just can't resist a $4 shirt even though you know you might only wear it once or twice? In recent years, the fast fashion industry has come under a lot of criticism as landfills pile up with cheap discarded clothing. About 8% of the waste that we put into landfills right now is from textile waste. And so there's a significant amount of waste that we're generating from textiles and we don't have a very good way to recycle it. That's Michael Rivera, an assistant professor with the Atlas Institute at the University of Colorado Boulder.