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Share Pakistani labourers pick cotton in a field in Bahawalpur district in Pakistan’s central Punjab province In November 2015. AFP Seaweed and mushrooms transform fashion Mon, 24 May 2021 From making algae-sequin dresses, dyeing clothes with bacteria to planting trackable pigments in cotton, an emerging tide of technological innovations offers the fashion industry a chance to clean up its woeful environmental record. Change is urgently needed, since the industry consumes 93 billion cubic metres of water per year, dumps 500,000 tonnes of plastic microfibres into the ocean, and accounts for ...

Des Moines Register The state is giving food processing giant Archer-Daniels-Midland a $1 million tax credit for an improbable-sounding project: to turn corn into synthetic spider silk. The company plans to use its wet mills in Clinton to extract a sugar that can form a basic building block of the product, long seen among materials scientists as a moonshot. Researchers from several companies have tried to emulate spider silk, which is strong, light and stretchy. Manufacturers believe the product could be a lucrative material for clothes, makeup, medical supplies, fake hair and even car part...

PARIS, May 20 — From making algae-sequin dresses, dyeing clothes with bacteria to planting trackable pigments in cotton, an emerging tide of technological innovations offers the fashion industry a chance to clean up its woeful environmental record. Change is urgently needed, since the industry...

Fashion's green future of seaweed coats and mushroom shoes Issued on: US designer Charlotte McCurdy has used seaweed to make a raincoast. - Charlotte McCurdy/AFP 4 min Paris (AFP) From making algae-sequin dresses, dyeing clothes with bacteria to planting trackable pigments in cotton, an emerging tide of technological innovations offers the fashion industry a chance to clean up its woeful environmental record. Change is urgently needed, since the industry consumes 93 billion cubic metres of water per year, dumps 500,000 tonnes of plastic microfibres...

Some experts are sceptical that such initiatives can lead to large-scale transformation.