Category: Textiles, Fashion, Sports and Footwear
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Breitling Goes rPET
Breitling is introducing a foldable, reusable watch box created entirely from upcycled plastic bottles.
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Truetzschler Talks about Textiles Recycling
Upcycling, downcycling, recycling and better use of raw materials are only a few terms for different sustainability efforts in the textile industry. The subject is complex and can have many different characteristics.
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Biobased Colors for Ocean Cleanup Sunglasses
holland colours’ biobased color concentrates used in the first the ocean cleanup sunglasses.
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Transparency and Circular Denim in India
By producing a quality product and working with ethical suppliers who pay a living wage, mills can provide the framework necessary for gaining consumer trust.
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Ocean Cleanup Sunglasses
Today, we launched the first product made with plastic certified from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch: The Ocean Cleanup sunglasses.
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Adidas Reinvents the Shoe
Adidas creates robotically woven Futurecraft Strung trainers from “new kind of textile”.
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Bioplastics To Substitute Synthetic Fibres
Bioplastics will become increasingly important to the textile and nonwovens industries as substitutions for synthetic fibres, as well as in the replacement of general commodity plastic packaging and other end-uses that will be initially easier to develop.
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Vegan Fashion Award 2020
Congratulations! Animal rights organization PETA Germany has voted the best sneaker for men.
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Shoes Made From Ocean Plastic and Car Tires
Shoes made from ocean plastic and car tires.
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First Reebok Vegan Bioplastics Performance Shoe
Reebok Partners with Boston Farm to Offer First Plant-Based Performance Shoe with a Side of Fresh Produce
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Sustainable Cotton Standards, Impact Measurement and Reporting
Sustainable Cotton Standards and Programmes Make Progress Towards Aligned Impact Measurement and Reporting
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Mizuno Launches Bioplastic Sport Shoes
Mizuno launches the wave rider 24 with a bio-based pebax® rnew® wave plate
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Straws, Forks and Bags Made From Methane
These carbon-negative, ocean-degradable straws and forks are made from greenhouse gases
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Le Coq Sportif Goes Vegan Leather
The French brand Le Coq Sportif takes another step towards eco-responsible production by making and betting on vegetable leather. A first for the century-old company.
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Australian Solution for Cotton Recycling
Cotton waste composter uses earthworms to turn waste into high-grade fertiliser
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New Bioplastic Price Tag Fastener
The plastic fasteners that hold clothes tags are getting an eco-friendly makeover.
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The First Bioplastic Swatch
Swatch takes a radical green turn, and unveils its new collection of watches designed from bio-based materials: here is the 1983 Swatch.
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Fashion Design Clothes Made from Bioplastics
Designer showcases bioplastic as sustainable material.
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Compostable Eucalyptus Pomegranate Hoodie
A hoodie made from eucalyptus trees dyed with pomegranate.
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Who is More Sustainable: Adidas or Nike?
One of them seem to have better track records in terms of environmental practices. But both are not really nice to their workers.
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Fashion Transparency Index 2020
This is the fifth annual edition of the Fashion Transparency Index. This year, we reviewed 250 of the world’s largest fashion brands and retailers and ranked them according to how much they disclose about their social and environmental policies, practices and impacts.
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Biodegradable Hunting Cartridges
Probably the first biodegradable hunting cartridges. Brilliant invention.
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Joob Activewear Goes for Tipa Packaging
Inspired by the advent of sustainable clothing and fair-trade initiatives, JOOB was founded by husband and wife team John Ames, Jr and Nicha Sangiampornpanit with a goal for total supply chain transparency and zero-waste in mind.
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Living Clothes Absorbing CO2
Future design: What ‘living’ clothes can do to absorb carbon emissions.
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Toray Launches BioNylon
Toray Industries, Inc. has developed a new, more sustainable nylon that represents a major step forward in the company’s Sustainability Vision and makes it possible to create bio-based versions of proven Toray technologies like Entrant® and Dermizax®.
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First Nike Made from Hemp
Hemp is making its comeback! First Nike sport shoe made from Hemp.
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Wood Pulp Enables Fully Circular Fashion
A new material made with wood pulp enables fully circular textiles.
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Green Shoes Business
Awareness of sustainability — both regarding materials and manufacturing methods — is driving the global sustainable footwear market.
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Textile Recycling Scandal
Another scandal relating to recycling; this time from the textiles industry.
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US Leads Algae Bioplastics with Flip Flops, Yoga Mats and Skateboards
The first prototypes of their new invention, developed over the summer in a York Hall chemistry laboratory, consist of a flexible, spongy slipper adorned with a Triton logo and a simple strap—fairly basic, as flip flops go.
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The Regenerative Fashion Report
New report reveals how emulating nature’s lessons in the fashion industry can enhance ecosystems to boost biodiversity, build soil, support communities, and clean up existing pollution.
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Washing Machine Filters and Microplastics
Filters can cut the volume of ocean-bound microplastic fibres released by washing machines, a study has shown.
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Northampton Student Creates Ecologically Sound Plastic Textile
An eco-conscious Textiles for Fashion student from the University of Northampton has shown plastic can be fantastic by making her very own alternative biodegradable textiles.
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Ocean Plastic Swimwear
Stay Wild is on a mission to create truly sustainable and ethical swimwear that’s well-designed and flattering for all women.
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Bioplastic Floorball Equipment
Sustainability is something that any responsible company cannot overlook these days. Floorball equipment manufacturer UNIHOC is now tapping into the area with its first ECO product.
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3D Printed Pla Surfboard
People always tend to push the boundaries of what is doable with a 3D printer.
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Sunglasses Maker Uses Plants
While everyone scrambles to ditch plastic straws, some companies are finding customers by ditching the plastic that’s common in other products–like sunglasses, which contribute to the 6,000 tons of annual waste produced by the manufacture of eyeglasses.
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Fashion Industry and the Corona Crisis
In a global crisis, retailers across all sectors are forced to cut costs and shift priorities. That pressure can lead to sustainability initiatives being put on the backburner.
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Breakthrough in Viscose Production from Textile Waste
Sateri, the world’s largest producer of viscose, has successfully produced on commercial scale viscose fibre regenerated from textile waste. The high quality new fibre uses a mix of dissolving pulp made from recycled post-consumer textile waste by Swedish company Södra, and other PEFC-certified wood pulp.
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Sustainable Australian Fashion
Australian labels rewriting the rules by taking a stand for sustainability.
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Puma Launches Ocean Plastic Sportswear Collection
German multinational sportswear brand Puma has created a new collection of footwear and clothing made using recycled plastic. In collaboration with First Mile, a United Kingdom-based company supporting low-income communities around the world, Puma used more than 190,000 recovered plastic bottles to make yarns to produce the products.
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Adidas Uses Ocean Plastic for Terrex Free Hiker shoes
Sportswear brand Adidas has once again teamed up with environmental initiative Parley for the Oceans to release an updated version of its Terrex hiking boot, which is made using recycled ocean plastic.
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Old T-Shirts for Making Reusable Bags
Cordova banned plastic grocery bags in 2016, though many Cordovans may not have noticed. In spite of an ordinance against non-biodegradable plastic bags, many residents continue not to shop with reusable bags, said Shae Bowman, operations manager for the Copper River Watershed Project.
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Skechers and Goodyear Partner on Biobased Shoe Soles
A new line of Skechers shoes features Goodyear rubber technology on the bottom, the companies announced this week.
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Handbags from Ocean Plastics
New York (CNN Business)Rothy’s iconic women’s flat shoes are knitted from a single continuous yarn derived from recycled plastic water bottles. Now Rothy’s is pushing the envelope again and creating another sustainable staple product.
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Where Goes the Textile Waste?
A new sustainability initiative, Accelerating Circularity, announced that it is working with major apparel companies such as Gap Inc., Target Corp. and VF Corp. to chart ways to eliminate textile-industry waste and recycle it into new fibers and materials, according to a Feb. 25 announcement.
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Senbis Wins NL Government Tender for Compostable Grass System
Senbis and its partners win tender for a Dutch government grant to develop a fully compostable artificial grass system.
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Shoe Soles Made from Oyster Shells
Solandy West has launched a surprising innovation. The sole is 3D designed and made with oyster shell dust.
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Bio Leather from Coconut Water
Coconut water is among the best thirst quenchers in the sweltering months. But there’s more. Did you know that coconut water can be the base material to develop alternative leather?
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Biodegradable Boots by Bottega Veneta
Yesterday, Bottega Veneta presented its Fall/Winter 2020 collection at Milan Fashion Week. This season creative director Daniel Lee presented an assortment of wardrobe staples and statement pieces, but nothing stood out quite like the Maison’s new biodegradable boot.
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EU Guide to Calculate Eco Footprint of T-shirts
The Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) Guide provides detailed and comprehensive technical guidance on how to conduct a PEF study.
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Genomatica Bio-Nylon is a $10 Billion Market
In the inevitable shift away from fossil fuels, Genomatica announced the first commercial production of bio-based nylon. Companies that seize the economic and environmental benefits of biomanufacturing stand to lead the way, whether it’s fabrics or face creams.
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CO2 Absorbing Fabrics
Fabrics that can suck CO2 from the atmosphere are among breakthroughs that can help tackle the climate emergency
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Cellulosic Staple Fiber by Eastman
Eastman, the maker of sustainably sourced Naia™ cellulosic filament yarn, announces the expansion of its Naia™ fiber portfolio at Première Vision-Paris (PV), the international fashion and textile exposition, Feb. 11-13.
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Cocona Launches Biodegradable Textiles
Cocona, Inc. has announced that all of its 37.5® staple fibers and filament yarns will include a new biodegradable additive.
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Lee Jeans Launches Biodegradable Range
Global denim brand Lee Jeans has announced it’s launching a range of fully biodegradable jeans.
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Sicomin Partners with Greenboats for Bioplastic Boats
Sicomin has partnered with GREENBOATS® on the supply of GreenPoxy® bio-based resins for the FLAX 27 – the most complete natural fiber composite project realized by GREENBOATS® to date.
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Customers Care About Sustainability According to Nike CEO
Only a month into being CEO, John Donahoe said he is aiming to take Nike “into its next chapter in a more digital and global world.” Donahoe spoke to CNBC about Nike’s latest sustainability efforts.
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H&M Goes for Coffee Grounds Dyes and Wine Waste Leather
It was over 10 years ago that H&M debuted its first capsule collection made of organic cotton. What felt like a novelty at the time has become mainstream and almost expected; if you aren’t using organic cotton, then what are you even doing? It’s a pattern H&M is hoping to repeat with its latest eco-forward…
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Industrial Production of Textile from Coconut Waste
Australian-based biomaterial technology company Nanollose Ltd has created the world’s first wearable garment using the company’s eco-friendly Tree-Free Rayon fibre (NullarborTM), sourced from sustainable coconut waste.
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Biodegradable Shoes on Super Bowl Ad
The race to build the most environmentally friendly ones is shaping up to be quite a competition
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World First Ton of Bio-Nylon Intermediate
Eighty years after nylon’s first commercial production, clean manufacturing technology leader Genomatica achieved a new milestone for the material — its production of the world’s first renewably-sourced ton of the key ingredient for nylon-6, made from plants instead of crude oil.
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Creating a Circular Economy for Fashion
Waste in fashion is on a massive scale, and less than one per cent of recycled textiles are converted into new, wearable materials. But very gradually, that may be changing. The FT’s Madison Darbyshire takes a closer look at three companies moving toward a circular economy for fashion, each in a different way. Watch the…
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Sustainable Faux Fur by Ecopel
Something is shifting on international catwalks: after decades of pressure from animal rights organisations and activists, top-name designer brands like Gucci, Michael Kors, Versace, Burberry, Chanel, Jean Paul Gaultier and Prada – all former supporters of the fur trade – have now refused to work with animal fur.
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Biodegradable Fabric Made from Beech Wood
The company uses plant-based fabric, Lenzing MicroModal, extracted from the pulp of beech wood tree in Austria.
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Sustainable Textile Pigments Made by Bacteria
Seducing the textile industry with exclusively natural colors is the ambition of four young chemists.
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Stella McCartney Goes for Biodegradable Denim
Candiani Denim announced Tuesday on Instagram that designer Stella McCartney will use the mill’s exclusive plant-based Coreva Stretch Technology in her Fall/Winter 20-21 collection.
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Biodegradable Snowshoes
What if your winter sports equipment was not only recyclable but also biodegradable? With Crescent Moon’s new eco-snowshoes, your footprint could literally disappear.
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Castor Oil Bioplastics in Sports Equipment
If you ski, run or play most sports, there is a high chance that your sports equipment contains our Pebax® materials.
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Biodegradable Fabric to Solve Fashion Waste Problem
You might not realise, but plastic, a petroleum-based product, is the most used material in the fashion industry right now. In fashion, plastics are turned into many types of fabrics such as organza, nylon, lycra, sequins, even ‘vegan leather‘ and vegan fur.
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PANGAIA Replaces Feathers with Wildflowers
With a concern for the treatment of ducks and geese during the gathering of feathers for down bedding and clothing, one company has developed a proprietary, cruelty-free alternative to traditional down. Called FLWRDWN, this down alternative, made from wildflowers, has taken scientists 10 years to develop.
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Panchkula Firm Develops Biodegradable Shoe
A 100% biodegradable shoe manufactured from sugarcane and eucalyptus with 82% of the material bio-based? Yes, you read it right!
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Super Bowl Goes Bioplastics
Truist, Footprint, Deliver Lean, Safer Watch and American Medical Response sign on to be part of South Florida’s 11th Super Bowl – a record-breaking game for Miami
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Moncler Goes Bioplastics
New technologies are helping the beloved outerwear brand to make use of natural materials that don’t negatively impact the environment.
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Bioplastic Sneakers Will be a Rage in 2020
Eco-friendly meatless food products shook up the fast food industry in 2019. Experts say next year’s game-changing trend in sustainable consumer goods may be plant-based — or “vegan” — athletic shoes.
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First Bioplastic Sneaker by Reebok
It seems the world isn’t just obsessed with plant-based dining these days: Reebok has just taken the sustainability trend one step further, unveiling a plant-based running shoe made with castor beans, algae, eucalyptus trees and natural rubber.
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First Skateboard Made with PLA
3D Printing a Skateboard with Carbon Fiber Reinforced PLA Filament.
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How Quickly do Fashion Materials Biodegrade?
4 per cent of worldwide waste came from the fashion industry in 2015 and more clothes crafted with man-made fibres will add to that.
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Vogue Says Race Is On To Make Biodegradable Lingerie
For 140 years, Solstiss has manufactured lace on Leavers machines in northern France. When the company, which supplies brands including Givenchy, Alexander McQueen and Valentino, decided to create its first organic cotton range, it faced a significant technical challenge.
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Award for Biodegradable Waterproof Cotton-Jute Fabric
Two researchers are to be presented with an award for developing a biodegradable cotton-jute fabric with a waterproof coating that can substitute for non-biodegradable PVC-coated polyester.
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Clean Air Research Converts Toxic Air Pollutant Into Industrial Chemical
A toxic pollutant produced by burning fossil fuels can be captured from the exhaust gas stream and converted into useful industrial chemicals using only water and air thanks to a new advanced material developed by an international team of scientists.
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Plastic-Free and Entirely Biodegradable Sneakers
British footwear firm WAES is crowd-funding for the launch of its world-first, zero-waste shoes.
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Carbon-Negative Raincoat from Algae Bioplastic
New York designer Charlotte McCurdy has fashioned a water-resistant jacket from a plastic made of algae, which captures existing CO2 from the atmosphere.
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New Plant Based Insulating Foam Called Greenprene
Hyperflex Unveils New Wetsuit Line 100% Neoprene Free, Sustainable, Plant Based Insulating Foam Called Greenprene®
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NBA Stadiums Start Replacing Plastic Cups with Recyclable Aluminium Cups
Ball Corporation and Kroenke Sports & Entertainment today announced that Ball’s infinitely recyclable aluminum cup will soon be available to visitors at KSE’s Pepsi Center in Denver, Colo.
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Large-Scale Textile Recycling Using Wood Fibers
At present, no one in the world can recycle fibres from blended fabrics on a large scale. Södra now has a unique solution that will enable circular flows in the fashion and textile industry.
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John Lewis Launches Biodegradable Vegan Duvet
John Lewis & Partners has launched a vegan duvet approved by The Vegan Society and it’s made from biodegradable materials.
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Delicate Wash Important Source of Microplastics
Study finds 800,000 extra fibres are shed than on standard washing machine setting.
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Fashion Designer Gabriela Hearst Goes Bioplastics
Gabriela Hearst On Her New Sustainability Focused Mayfair Store, Designed By Norman Foster.
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Dupont Goes Biobased Fashion
The DuPont Sorona brand team gathered sustainable food and fashion leaders from across the country for thoughtful conversation around the slow food and fashion movements on Angel Island outside of San Francisco, CA, on 11 September.
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Veja New Running Shoe Made With Bioplastics
The so-called “post-petroleum” shoe joins the growing ranks of eco-runners.
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Schoeller Introduces Proearth Biodegradable Textiles
Schoeller, the global textile solutions manufacturer dedicated to sustainability and innovation for more than 150 years, introduces its new PROEARTH™ collection of biodegradable textiles.
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Clothing Company Launches Biodegradable Activewear
A clothing company based in Burlington is launching a line of biodegradable activewear.
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Biodegradable Branded Ribbon for Affordable Sustainable Packaging
Cream City Ribbon, artisan ribbon made in Milwaukee, WI, has introduced a smaller program for their personalized artisan ribbon in order to respond to the increase in need for affordable sustainable packaging.
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RadiciGroup Sponsors Italian Football Team
The official UEFA group stage draw ceremony was held in the Principality of Monaco.
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Lenzing Fibers Certified as Fully Biodegradable in Water, Soil and Compost
Viscose, Modal and Lyocell fibers certified by the independent research laboratory Organic Waste Systems.
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