The results of a one-year composting test on a pair of stretch jeans left hundreds of people gobsmacked.
The country's prime minister said the mutated virus, found on mink farms, "may pose a risk to the effectiveness of a future vaccine."
The fashion industry has an enormous environmental impact on the planet; could biodegradable fashion be a sustainable solution?
Spread the loveLONDON – A decade ago, nobody thought of plastic fibres as sustainable – so what happened? To answer this question, Veronica Bates Kassatly painstakingly traced the roots of several alarming falsehoods about cotton and natural fibres right back to an obscure blog from the polyester sector in 2009…. It all started in 2009,
HYBRIT venture between Vattenfall, LKAB, and SSAB hails critical milestone on path to zero carbon steelmaking
From restoring habitats to writing their own climate bill, young people are leading the way in tackling the climate crisis
Fashion for Good dives into a "new frontier in chemical recycling" with the Full Circle Textiles Project to scale promising technologies.
What is deadstock Deadstock fabric is leftover, remnant, or scrap fabricconventionally considered useless, last season, unsalable. Almost literally, deadstock. It is the pressingly pilingup byproduct of a business model that requires brands and mills to overproduce in order to achieve production minimums. And sometimes, these piles end up in the trash.
Here are 25 shocking facts about food waste, which negatively affects the environment, the economy, food security, and nutrition.
Are you a creative mind interested in upcycling projects? Then DAWN Denim is looking for you!
Businesses are thinking beyond profit to strike a better deal for communities and the planet. Learn about environmental CSR approaches.
Das Grundwasser ist aufgefüllt – dank des vielen Regens und Schnees. Das sind gute Aussichten für den Sommer.
Each bit of plastic takes a unique journey once it reaches the ocean. We’re trying to spot the patterns.
Greenwashing is the enemry of progress and is holding back the global fashion industry on key sustainability issues
Forscher am KIT haben ein Verfahren entwickelt, das einen wirtschaftlichen Lithium-Abbau in Deutschland vorantreibt. Was die Förderung nun beschleunigt.
Der Deutsche Wetterdienst warnt vor einem globalen Temperaturanstieg um bis zu vier Grad. Die Pariser Klimaziele würden damit verfehlt, heisst es.
The US has imposed tariffs on Rwanda over an obscure import: Second-hand clothes.
Spread the loveLONDON – For the past decade, hundreds of brands and retailers have used the amount of ‘sustainable’ cotton they source annually as one of their prime sustainability marketing and PR tools. Leading the charge in this area has been an organisation which has established what has become by far the world’s largest cotton
The innovative team's hemp-, coconut-, and mushroom-derived material is helping to stop sheep from being shorn bloody for their wool.
Among a new crop of environmentally-focused material projects is a “freshwater-free fabric” and a bio-iridescent sequin made of wood cellulose.
Das vergangene Jahr war kein gutes Jahr für den Permafrost. Noch nie tauten die Böden so stark auf.
International Business Machines Corp on Wednesday said it has come up with a new battery technology that uses materials extracted from seawater and requires no cobalt, as the race to find alternative sources to the expensive mineral intensifies.
The Lorax might have spoken for the trees, but it turns out that trees can speak for themselves. At least to other trees, that is.
We hear from the author and journalist on secondhand clothing, the fashion industry’s addiction to cheap fossil fuels and how to break the waste cycle.
Everything you need to know about getting involved in Fashion Revolution Week 2020.
Graduating design students, as seen at the Dutch Design Week, are conceiving mechanisms able to cope with the rapid change of ecosystems.
The growth of the sharing economy has been relentless, and according to GlobalData, it has shaken up the way the insurance industry has traditionally understood liabilities.
The EU will ban the export of unsorted plastic waste to poorer countries as of January. Under new rules, trash importers and exporters will need to agree on how to handle hazardous shipments.
Auf dem Handy Filme schauen, Musik hören, Zeitung lesen. Das verbraucht Unmengen an Energie und produziert viel CO2.
While sadly, we're no longer in the EU here; all those countries that do sit within that have to work towards a specific goal, when it comes to packaging: by 2030 all plastic packaging within the r...
Colombia's coffee production is struggling to cope with climate change, and that's bad news for coffee lovers.
The insights industry must do more to make it easier for consumers to make the right choices for the environment, a panel at MRS Impact 2021 has said.
This man has been planting a tree every day on a barren island, since he was 16 years old, and now it's a giant forest that's bigger than Central Park.
