Pigments are uncommon in the textile industry because, unlike dyes, they are insoluble in water and need a binder to stick to fabrics. The acrylic and polyurethane binders typically used can make ...

Every year, the textile industry uses 1.3 trillion gallons of water to dye garments – enough to fill 2 million Olympic-sized swimming pools. Most of this water, loaded with harmful chemicals and dyes, ...

Is the term a matter of semantics? Or does the industry need to rally around a more accurate description of the problem?

How is fast fashion polluting our water, air, and soil? It takes 7,500 litres of water to make a pair of jeans... Read the ...

Livinguard Better Fresh is game-changing odor control solution that at the same time significantly reduces microfiber shedding of textiles Environmental pollution caused by microfibers from textiles ...

Microplastics, plastics less than 5 millimeters in length, are becoming a growing concern due to their ubiquity and persistence in the environment and potential effects on ecological and human health.

Researchers found that hand-washing in mineral-rich water dramatically increases microplastic fibre shedding from polyester ...

In March, Ghanaian-British athlete Yvette Tetteh announced her commitment to swim 450 kilometers down the Volta River, a major river system in Ghana. The activist and agribusiness leader swam under ...