Aerogels made from waste cotton-based fabric waste can be used to control haemorrhaging, claim researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of Engineering. Aerogels are among ...

Your future T-shirts might be made from potato peels, wheat straw, trees, or even former T-shirts instead of virgin cotton. In Finland, a startup has developed new technology that can transform ...

When a cotton gin is used to separate cotton fibers from their seeds, a lot of lint is produced as a waste product. Currently, much of that cotton lint is just burned or put in landfills. Thanks to ...

Nagpur: The Central Institute for Research in Cotton Technology (Circot) Mumbai under its nano-technology mission developed nano-cellulose from cotton waste which can be used as spinning oil in the ...

Cotton Lives On programme intends to cut landfill waste and extend the life of old cotton. Credit: Cotton Lives On/FABRIC PR. This no-cost cotton circularity programme was originally introduced in ...

Plastic waste is being recycled and developed into a new sustainable fabric by researchers in Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Recycling has been a massive thing in the entire world ever ...

Being the biggest cotton-producing country in the world has its pluses–and cracking how to work with it sustainably is a big one. Some brands might do the bare minimum it takes for a coat of the ...