Natural fibers promoted as sustainable alternatives to plastic, including cotton and wool, have been found preserved in a U.K. lake for more than a century—challenging assumptions that they quickly ...
Ugandan researchers are transforming discarded banana stems into textiles, hair extensions and sanitary pads, positioning the East African nation to capitalize on growing global demand for sustainable ...
Bast fibers and regenerated natural fibers are increasingly used in technical textiles, automotive components, construction ...
If proven successful, NIST said this could have several industrial applications, including in recycling.
Nordic Bioproducts Group, a Finnish startup, has created a new plant-based textile fiber. The company is a spinoff from Aalto University in Finland, which created a patented technology called ...
A new report from Textile Exchange reveals the market share gains for preferred fiber and materials–those with improved social and environmental impacts–grew significantly in 2020, but also stresses ...
A triad of Chinese government agencies said this week that the country aims to recycle 25 percent of all its textile waste and produce 2 million tons of recycled fiber by 2025 as part of an effort to ...
Fiber' biorecycling process under conditions representative of industrial operations100th batch1 successfully produced at the Clermont-Ferrand demonstration plantMore than 95% conversion achieved ...
Smart textiles from liquid crystal elastomer fibers can now be melted down and reknitted with nearly identical shape-shifting performance. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Smart textiles built from liquid crystal ...
“Made to last” shouldn’t mean “here forever.” But for the majority of textiles today, that’s the unfortunate reality. In lab conditions, CiCLO® — a sustainable additive that can be combined with ...
It’s much-maligned by many fashion industry stakeholders that sustainability is a siloed challenge shuttled up and down the supply chain when only holistic and collaborative action can measure up to ...
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