Category: Textiles, Fashion, Sports and Footwear
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First Carbon Capture Shoe
On presents the first ever shoe made from carbon emissions in partnership with LanzaTech, Borealis and Technip Energies
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Worlds First Compostable Wedding Ring
QALO and Pela Join Forces to Create the World’s First Compostable Wedding Ring — At first, I was going to say “greenwashing” but after reflection (1) not everybody can afford a golden ring, and (2) gold digging is not the most eco friendly industry so why not have a ring in (biodegradable) plastics
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Green Sports Alliance Launches Food Waste Diversion and Compostable Packaging Playbook
The purpose of this playbook is to address how certified compostable food serviceware and packaging can play a vital role in sports venues, by facilitating organic waste diversion from landfills to composting facilities — I’ve just discovered that GSA is a NatureWorks lobby & promotional organisation
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Zara and Renewcell Partner on Circular Textiles
Renewcell and ZARA Collaborate to Create a Capsule Collection Made from Material Produced with Circulose®
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Adidas Launches Ocean Plastic Federation Kits for World Cup 2022
Today, adidas reveals the Home and Away federation kits created for the national teams of Argentina, Germany, Japan, Mexico and Spain which will be worn on the world’s biggest sporting stage: the FIFA World Cup 2022™.
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Nike Incinerates Textile Waste in Cambodia
Clothing incinerated to fuel Cambodian brick kilns
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Gomorrah Fully Compostable Menswear Line
Gomorrah Introduces Fully Compostable Menswear Line — Fully compostable clothes? I wonder what you’re supposed to do with them: throw them in your backyard or with your organic waste? I’m sure natural cotton and linen clothes may degrade naturally in the open environment but using marketing claims such as “compostable” is one step close of…
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Worlds Most Expensive Plastic Waste Bag
The world’s most expensive plastic waste bag — Initially, I thought it was a joke, but it’s not.
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NatureWorks CEO Promotes Bioplastics on Golf Courses
PGA TOUR Shares Sustainability in Golf Video Featuring NatureWorks CEO, Rich Altice — Sometimes I wonder if NatureWorks CEO spends more time on golf courses than behind his desk? Anyway, after years of hiding god knows where, he finally decided to do his coming out …. on golf courses. This must be his comfort zone.
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New Tom Ford Ocean Plastic Watch
Tom Ford’s New Watch Is Made Entirely From Reclaimed Ocean Plastic
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Insempra Invests in Solena Materials
Strategic investment to support the foundation of Solena Materials, a spin-out from Imperial College London, accelerating the development of synthetic fibers for high-performance, intrinsically sustainable clothing
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Textile Waste is the New Pollution Plague in Ghana
As much as 40 per cent of the $80million-worth of used clothes that Britain sells to Ghana goes straight into landfill, with campaigners saying that fast fashion trends are to blame
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Louis Vuitton Bioplastic Sneakers
Louis Vuitton launches new sneakers made with Bioplastics
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Fashion Fabric Grown from Microbes
New Microbial Weaving Process Can Grow Compostable Fabric From Microbes
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Using PLA to Make Clothes
Tokyo firm finds use for Chinese biodegradable plastic in clothes
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Adidas Greenwashing with Floatable Ocean Plastic Tennis Court
Adidas Creates Floating Tennis Court Made of Ocean Plastic to Raise Awareness — There has been a greenwashing avalanche since the EU launched the circular movement.
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Norway Asks Retail Data on Microplastics
Norwegian clothing firms told to share microplastic pollution impacts
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US Clothing Label Goes for Compostable Clothes
Brooklyn-Based Clothing Label Wants Its Clothes To Be Fully Compostable — Compostable clothes? Compostable has become a synonym for greenwashing
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Worn Again Technologies to Build Chemical Recycling Plant in Switzerland
Worn Again Technologies announces plans to build a new textile recycling demo plant in Winterthur Switzerland
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Adidas and Parley Accused of Ocean Plastic Greenwashing
Documentary on the ocean plastics used by Adidas and Parley for ocean
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Cannondale Goes Compostable Bottle
Cannondale goes with compostable bottles for the Giro d’Italia
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Dow Launches Bioplastics for Footwear
Dow leads the way to more sustainable footwear with ENGAGE REN plant-based high performing polyolefin elastomers
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888 and Ecosec Partner on Bioplastics Tamper Evident Bags (FREE)
888 partners with ECOSEC to use biodegradable tamper evident bags at 888poker LIVE event series. This is a FREE article
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New Project for Sustainable Textiles in Finland
Telavalue project develops value chains for sustainable production, use and cycles of textiles
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UC San Diego Creates Biodegradable Shoe
Sustainable Sneakers: UC San Diego Scientists Create the World’s First Biodegradable Shoe
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Japanese Biodegradable Guitar Picks
Japanese plastics firm launched 100% biodegradable guitar picks
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Wooden Bodyboards for Hire to Solve Plastic Pollution
Surf Wood for Good offers FREE wooden bellyboard rental as a sustainable alternative to cheap polystyrene bodyboards, thousands of which end up broken and discarded on our beaches every year.
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Italian Depolymerisation Plant for PET and Polyester
Video of the first depolymerization demo plant in Italy for PET flakes and polyester from textile waste.
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Cork on Linen to Replace Leather, PVC and PU
CORKonLINEN is the only true vegan alternative to leather. The material is 100% European, plastic free and natural.
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Italian Chemical Recycling Plant for Textiles
Nextchem Completes Italy’s 1° Demonstration Plant For Pet And Textiles Polyester Chemical Recycling
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Professors Awarded for Wood Based Textile Fibres Research
Marcus Wallenberg Prize to Professor Herbert Sixta and Professor Ilkka Kilpeläinen for the development of Sustainable wood-based textile fibres
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Wincup and Yankees Stadium Partner on PHA Straws
WinCup’s phade® compost-certified, marine biodegradable straws and stirrers to be provided at Yankee Stadium concession stands in 2022
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Certification Schemes Greenwashing in Fashion Industry
Report on the Assessment of certification schemes and voluntary initiatives in the fashion industry. A lack of accountability and independent oversight are part of the greenwashing machinery.
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Mercedez Benz Stadium Goes Compostable
Check out Mercedes-Benz Stadium putting in the work with their associates to divert waste from landfill to compost. They’re even using the compost they generate for the gardens at the stadium.
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Evrnu Launches New Textile Made from Cotton Textile Waste
Evrnu Develops and Launches Breakthrough Material Made from 100% Textile Waste and 100% Recyclable
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Renewcell and Daiwabo Rayon Partner on Circular Textiles
Renewcell and fiber producer Daiwabo sign Letter of Intent for circular textile fiber collaboration
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Fully Biodegradabloe Shoes
Fully biodegradable shoes made from algae, hemp and eucalyptus.
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Maurice Lacroix Goes Ocean Plastic Watches
Maurice Lacroix unveils the brightest, funkiest range of watches, offered in an array of eye-popping colours.
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Fashion for Good Promotes 8 Innovations
Fashion for Good welcomes eight innovators into its 2022 Global Innovation Programme, chosen from a group of innovators scouted across the globe, who pitched their innovative solutions to Fashion for Good partners.
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Filipino Woman Finds Solution to Plastic Waste
What if the solution to our plastic waste problem had been accidentally discovered by a Filipino woman
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Decathlon Goes for Green Poxy Wakeboards
Decathlon selects GreenPoxy bio-resin for latest sustainable wakeboards
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Lenzing Opens Lyocell Plant in Thailand
Lenzing successfully opens world’s largest lyocell plant in Thailand
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Hugo Boss Invests in Decarbonised Yarn
Heiq Aeoniq “Game-Changing” Decarbonizing Yarn Endorsed By Hugo Boss And The Lycra Company
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Adidas and Spinnova Partner on Textiles
Spinnova and adidas unveil their first commercial product
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New Website on Fashion Greenwashing
A new website has been launched to highlight “rampant greenwashing” in the fashion industry
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Australian Advanced Recycling Technology
Australian National University are working on super enzymes to degrade plastic waste and nylon — ECHO INSTRUMENTS, Technology to Measure & Analyse Plastic Biodegradation
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Nordic Bioproducts Group Develops New Plant Based Textile Fibre
Nordic Bioproducts Group – has successfully spun a new plant-based textile fibre.
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Biodegradability Added to Traceable and Carbon Positive Fibres
ACATEL adds biodegradability to traceable and carbon positive fibres
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Biopolymers Properties and Applications for Textiles
Towards the Sustainability of the Plastic Industry through Biopolymers: Properties and Potential Applications to the Textiles World
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Chile is Graveyard of Western Fast Fashion
Chile has become the graveyard of Western fast fashion
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Finland Invests in Textile Recycling
Spinverse helps secure 5.2 M€ of funding for an end-of-life textile refinement plant project
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Mercedes Benz and Amsilk Partner on Vegan Silk
AMSilk Partners with Mercedes-Benz to Present a Sustainable Bio-Based Product
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Sweden Goes Textile Recycling
BioInnovation: New research will contribute to a more sustainable textile industry
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TerraCycle and Lilysilk Partner on Textile Recycling
Recycling in partnership with LILYSILK
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Lanzatech and Zara Partner on Recycled Carbon Fashion
LanzaTech and Zara Collaborate to Create a Capsule Collection Made from Recycled Carbon Emissions
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H&M Goes Paptic
Hennes & Mauritz brand COS chooses Paptic® material for t-shirt pouches
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Plant Based Indigo for Denim Dyeing
Plant-Based Indigo Presents a Solution for the Future of Denim Dyeing
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First Biodegradable and Soluble Velcro
A first biodegradable version of velcro has been created, drawing inspiration from climbing plants, to safeguard the environment
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Adidas Accused of Greenwashing by French Watchdog
Adidas has been accused of greenwashing
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Scotch & Soda Goes Tipa Compostable Packaging
Scotch & Soda teams up with Tipa on compostable packaging
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Global Fibre Impact Explorer by Google
Helping fashion brands make more sustainable decisions
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From Clothes to Roads
Diverse partners have come together to create a circular system to reuse the untapped resource of unwanted clothing and textiles.
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Timberland Goes Biobased Eyewear
Timberland’s Eyewear Looks Good and Supports the Environment
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Louis Vuitton Launches Bioplastics Shoes
The new Louis Vuitton sneakers, Charlie, are made from bioplastic
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How to Repurpose Ocean Plastic Fishing Nets?
Upcycled fishing nets help this Husky co-founder tackle plastic pollution.
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Textiles 2030 Initiative Wins Award
Textiles 2030 wins gold for Best Environmental or Sustainable Programme
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Puma Goes Biodegradable Sneakers
No Time For Waste: Puma Pilots Testing For Biodegradable Re:Suede Version Of Its Most Iconic Sneaker
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Handbags from Flower Waste
Irene Purasachit saw the floral industry’s waste problem firsthand – now she makes material for handbags from discarded blooms
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First Bio Attributed Vinyl Gloves
Jokasafe Contributes To A Carbon Neutral Future With The World´s First Bio-Attributed Vinyl Gloves
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Phoenix Footprint Center Aims at Sustainable Exemplarity
Footprint Center will provide likeminded companies, cities, and venues with a living laboratory for change
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Dow and Ralph Lauren Partner on Sustainable Dyes
Ralph Lauren and Dow Open-Source New Process to Transform How The Fashion Industry Dyes Cotton
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Anya Hindmarch Biodegradable Leather Bags
Anya Hindmarch Launches Collection of Biodegradable Leather Bags
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Ikea and H&M Partner on Textile Recycling
Large scale study from IKEA and H&M Group shows potential to transform the way we use recycled textiles
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Clothes from PET Bottles is Greenwashing
Why making clothes from plastic bottles will not solve fashion’s waste crisis
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Caribbean Haute Couture Goes Ocean Plastic
Aiming to design 80% of our collections with sustainable ocean waste plastic materials by 2022.
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Biodegradable Polyester made from Recycled Feedstock
ADVA®terra – A Strategy to Reduce Plastic Pollution
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Biophilica Wins Manufacturing Futures 2021
Biophilica Transforms Green Waste Into A Plant-Based Leather Alternative That Is Compostable, Recyclable, Estimated Carbon Neutral, And Made Locally
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Dow and Crocs Partner on Biobased Shoes
Dow and Crocs announce a new collaboration to help lower the carbon footprint of Crocs’ iconic footwear
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Hedoine Biodegradable Tights
To address the issue of the billions of tights that end up in landfill every year
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Eastman and Milliken go for Circular Textiles
Eastman and Milliken to Lead Textile Circularity Initiative
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First Cultivated Biomaterial for Fur Industry
The first cultivated biomaterial for the fur industry
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Andy Wolf Eyewear Goes Eastman Acetate Renew
As the first independent eyewear brand in the German-speaking region, we are converting our acetate collection to the most durable acetate in the industry.
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Nike and Newlight Partner on Biomaterials
AirCarbon x Nike: Newlight and Nike Partner to Reduce Carbon Footprint
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First Sugarcane Bra
Accessible, Sustainable Intimates Brand Launching First-of-its-Kind Plant-Based Bra Cup Sourced from Sugarcane, Available Exclusively at Walmart
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Fossil Free Fashion Scorecard Report
47 companies assessed for steps taken to eliminate fossil fuels from manufacturing, materials, shipping
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Adidas Launches No Dye Collection
Our latest footwear collection offers a new take on color: you don’t always need it.
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Retailers Comment EU Strategy for Sustainable Textiles
In the new Circular Economy Action Plan the Commission announced that a dedicated EU strategy for textiles is planned for 2021.
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Genomatica and Lululemon Partner on Bio Nylon
lululemon Partners with Leading Sustainable Materials Innovator Genomatica to Bring Bio-Nylon to Products
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Full Speed on Greenwashing with Easyjet
Did you know, at easyJet we are committed to reducing our environmental impact? A good example of Greenwashing
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Bucha Bio Develops New Bio Material
Press Release: Bucha Bio Develops Proprietary Process for Sustainable Biomaterial Manufacturing, Custom Sneaker Refitter Recreates Iconic Sneaker
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Clothes Create More Waste than Plates or Straws
Clothes may be worse for the environment than single use plastics says Newsweek
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