More than 58,000 tonnes of microfibres from textile production leak into the environment every year, according to a new analysis.

The Institut für Textiltechnik (ITA) of RWTH Aachen University can look forward to two award winners in 2023: In his master’s thesis, ITA master’s graduate student Flávio André Marter Diniz developed ...

Textile-to-textile regeneration company Reju and textile recycler Novelles Fibres Textiles (NFT), both based in France, are partnering on the sourcing and recycling of textile scrap to support the ...

We are producing more textiles than ever before: worldwide, well over one hundred million tons of textiles are manufactured every year—more than twice as much as in the year 2000. This makes it ...

Along a nondescript street in the small town of Belmont, North Carolina, a community college is quietly helping revolutionize the textile industry. “Say someone wants to develop the newest running ...

Under Armour will soon be making available kits of its award-winning fiber-shed test method so industry players at large can better understand the pervasive microfiber pollution problem. “Until now, ...

(Nanowerk News) Smart textiles offer many potential wearable technology applications, from therapeutics to sensing to communication. For such intelligent textiles to function effectively, they need to ...

MIT engineers have developed a new elastic yarn made from polyethylene that could offer a more recyclable alternative to ...

The statistics are stark. Textile production alone releases an estimated 92,000 tonnes of microfibre pollution annually. Most of this finds its way into the environment. Where do these fibres ...