Ultraprocessed clothing is bad for the environment and bad for you.
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Nature Coatings makes a petroleum-free alternative to a widely used—and particularly toxic—black pigment. But the problem it’s solving isn’t one the fashion industry is desperate to fix.
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To celebrate the 150th anniversary of its famous 501 jeans, Levi’s announced the release of a new plant-based 501 Jean.
If you’re slightly confused by this, you’re not alone. After all, a typical pair of 501s isn’t made of leather or any other animal product. It’s cotton. In fact, its label says, “100% cotton.”
But while that label is legally correct, it doesn’t tell the whole story.
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At the beginning of February, a large box from Germany arrived at my home in Brooklyn. Inside I found a futuristic, quilted polyester hooded jacket in pure white. “That would go really well at a winter rave,” my husband said when I slipped it over my head. With its sharp angles and preponderance of straps, it looked like something issued to the residents of a colony on Mars to wear on their weekends off from working the potato greenhouse.
Read moreWell+Good | Remove the Earth Day T-Shirt From Your Digital Cart: Here’s What’s Required of Effective Sustainable Fashion →
Writing about sustainability in the fashion industry is my passion and focus 365 days a year, and so I’m always on the lookout for innovative brands trying to do things a little better. But come early March, the emails start arriving from brands that want to tell me about their soon-to-launch collections in honor of Earth Day on April 22: branded T-shirts made of organic cotton, hoodies made from recycled plastic and cotton, and sunglasses made of bio-based polymers. These efforts are the environmentalism equivalent of phoning it in.
Read moreNEO.LIFE | Get Up to Speed on the State of Eco-Fashion →
The race is on to bioengineer carbon-neutral, recyclable, biodegradable, and affordable materials.
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