Changing Markets Foundation reveals recycled polyester creates 55 per cent more microplastic pollution. Recycled polyester is a sustainability fig leaf covering fashion’s deepening dependence on ...

Textile-to-textile recycled polyester is having a moment. In November, Swedish recycler Syre announced it will become Nike’s lead strategic supplier of textile-to-textile recycled polyester in a multi ...

NEW DELHI: The ministry of chemicals and fertilizers has rescinded 14 quality control orders (QCOs), including polyester fibre and polyester yarn with immediate effect in public interest after ...

Hard water causes polyester to shed far more microplastics, and only some fabrics benefit strongly from protective coatings, revealing why water chemistry and unseen textile finishes significantly ...

Fast fashion items, often low in quality, wear out quickly and are discarded after only a few uses, making this worse. With the expected growth in global textile production and consumption, ...

Gap Inc has signed an agreement with Syre, a textile-to-textile recycler founded by H&M Group, to use 10,000 tons per year of the company’s recycled polyester across its portfolio of brands. The ...

A visit to one of Unifi’s last remaining US polyester plants, in Yadkinville, North Carolina, can make you feel like an optimist. After driving through a sweet little neighborhood of small homes, you ...

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) -- About 180 workers are getting laid off from their jobs at a manufacturing plant that is closing in Fayetteville. Alpek, a Mexico-based polyester company, said it is ...

Since releasing the fun-on-treadmills-on-a-budget clip for their punchy song “Here It Goes Again” nearly two decades ago, the Los Angeles-via-Chicago band OK Go has become as known for its visual ...

You may own a fleece top or two made from plastic soda bottles. Recycled polyester, or polyethylene terephthalate, known in the industry as PET or just “chip,” is old hat. The US fleece specialist ...

OK Computer was very much a product of its time. The late 1990s was an era of immense growth, especially in terms of technology and digital landscapes. Where one might find a positive in that change, ...

I’m on an overnight flight from New York to Frankfurt, Germany, and the accoutrements given to me in business class have a sustainable sheen. Both the polyester blanket and polyester flight kit ...