Every second, one garbage truck full of textiles is landfilled or incinerated. Up to 85% of textiles go into landfills each year. By the time you have read this article, on average, more than 120 ...

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I’m on an overnight flight from New York to Frankfurt, Germany, and the accoutrements given to me in business class have a sustainable sheen. Both the polyester blanket and polyester flight kit ...

A visit to one of Unifi’s last remaining US polyester plants, in Yadkinville, North Carolina, can make you feel like an optimist. After driving through a sweet little neighborhood of small homes, you ...

At some point, we’ve all pulled a favorite top or athletic jacket out of the dryer and wondered: Did this get smaller? The conversation around fabrics is full of myths, and “does polyester shrink” ...

Demand for sustainable activewear is soaring but without technological improvement marketing appeal will outstrip environmental benefit A colleague was standing in front of me holding a swatch of ...

While the linen industry may have a word or two for Mink, his take is suitably zeitgeisty. Polyester-bashing is rife right now in fashion discourse, vilified by commenters and called out on fashion ...