Discarded silk yarn can clean up polluted waterways

November 18, 2024  |  EcoNote

Cornell University researchers have developed a sustainable way to clean up waterways by reusing one waste product to remove another. Led by Larissa Shepherd, assistant professor in the Dept. of Human Centered Design, College of Human Ecology, the team has proposed using discarded silk yarn for the…
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OXMAN announces the O° biodegradable shoe 

November 18, 2024  |  EcoNote

Design lab OXMAN has unveiled the O° Shoe, a 100 percent biodegradable shoe made without petrochemicals, and which produces no microplastics. The company, headquartered in New York, N.Y., says its mission is to create and deliver nature-centric products and environments to its clients and the natur…
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Bio-derived LYCRA fiber to be introduced

September 9, 2024  |  EcoNote

The LYCRA Company, a fiber and technology provider for apparel and personal care products, has announced its bio-derived LYCRA® fiber made with QIRA®, which the company says is the industry’s first renewable spandex available at scale. The fiber will be launched in the first half of 2025. 
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eVent Fabrics® prepares for a PFAS-free future 

September 9, 2024  |  EcoNote

eVent Fabrics, a global producer of waterproof and breathable technologies, is offering their partner brands eVent BIO and eVent alpineST technologies. Both are made without PFAS and are compliant with regulations requiring the removal of PFAS chemicals from many consumer products. As the European …
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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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