VTT launches Energy First initiative 

August 26, 2024  |  EcoNote

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has announced a new initiative to address the challenges of energy and resource consumption in the forestry and textile industry. The goal of the Energy First initiative is to act as a starting point for an entirely new technology, which creates the condit…
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Bcomp wins Sustainable Process award

August 12, 2024  |  EcoNote

Bcomp, global bio-composites company, which is helping to decarbonize the auto sector, has been awarded the 2024 Altair Enlighten Award in the Sustainable Process category, alongside long-time partner BMW M GmbH and other collaborators, for the sustainable BMW M Visionary Materials Seat.
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Decathlon launches its sustainable wetsuit 

July 29, 2024  |  EcoNote

Global specialist sports brand Decathlon has partnered with U.S. materials science firm Yulex on a neoprene alternative wetsuit based on 100 percent-certified natural rubber. Alternatives to neoprene, which is 100 percent synthetic, do exist on the market, made from 85 percent natural rubber and 15…
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Partnership will scale up decarbonized, circular polyester

June 24, 2024  |  EcoNote

Hyosung TNC, sustainable textile maker, says that it has partnered with Ambercycle, a material science company, to become the first manufacturer in South Korea to introduce a textile-to-textile, circular polyester into supply chains. The collaboration advances the partners' shared vision of a circ…
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Artist depicts the impact of textile waste

June 24, 2024  |  EcoNote

Ilaria Marzano’s artwork Back To Square One confronts us with a bleak scenario: what if textile remnants from Accra, a city in Ghana, where the West discards 15 million garments weekly, were instead deposited in our squares and streets? The response is embodied in Marzano’s fusion of textile map…
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DITF to participate in recycling wind turbine blades

June 10, 2024  |  EcoNote

The German Institutes of Textile and Fiber Research (DITF) is one of 14 partners from seven countries participating in an effort to deal with composite waste in the wind energy sector. Funded by Horizon Europe and the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA), “REWI…
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Textiles from plant waste project is funded

June 10, 2024  |  EcoNote

An academic researcher at the University of California, Riverside, has received a $1.45 million federal grant to advance the production of textiles from plant waste. The process, known as co-solvent-enhanced lignocellulosic fractionation (CELF), is described as a biomass pretreatment technology beca…
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Startup makes sustainable products from invasive species

May 27, 2024  |  EcoNote

INVERSA, a Tampa, Fla.-based startup, is showing that sustainable, fashionable goods can be produced from invasive and harmful species. Invasive species are responsible for the extinction of 60 percent of valuable native species.
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Nanofabrics can effectively filter dyes from wastewater

May 13, 2024  |  EcoNote

A research team at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) in Austria is exploring the use of filters made from cellulosic waste to remove potentially harmful dyes from textile wastewater. According to a report in Ecotextile News, the researchers have used waste materials, such as old cleaning…
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Navigating “Green Claims” regulatory change

April 22, 2024  |  EcoNote

Due to increasing concerns regarding climate change, consumers are seeking ways to contribute positively. Recently, the European Parliament voted to implement a Green Claims Directive, which is aimed at protecting consumers from misleading practices that could obstruct well-informed purchasing decis…
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