In: Energy & Tech
Textile Recycling Significantly Reduces Greenhouse Gases, Says EPA
10/08/2013Now, eco-minded fashionistas have an added incentive to cruise secondhand shops and vintage boutiques.
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Online Retailers Use High-Tech Sizing Technology to Reduce Returns
10/07/2013Across the globe and across brands, companies don’t have standard sizing and a size 6 at H&M. Online shoppers often buy and return to get the correct size, or just plain don’t buy at all, both of which cuts into a retailer’s bottom line.
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Canepa is World’s First Textile Mill to Commit to Greenpeace’s Detox Plan
10/04/2013“We want to contribute to the growth of environmentally-friendly fashion by helping top brands produce the beautiful clothes that only they can but with the added value of using our fabrics, which do not pollute precious resources such as water,”
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Future Fashion Trends: High-Tech, Lab-Grown Biological Textiles
10/03/2013The fashion trends of the future could involve living, growing textiles, or even accessories implanted into our bodies.
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‘World’s first’ self-powering gym opens in Bristol
10/02/2013Energy-efficient equipment at Cadbury House taps gym users to power itself and the building
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Colombian Plant Fiber Rids Water of Harmful Textile Dyes in Minutes
10/01/2013The technique involves placing Colombian fique plant fibers, which are often used to make coffee bags, into polluted waters where the fibers soak up the dye.
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World’s Largest Solar Plant Slated for Western India
09/30/2013India will soon be home to the largest solar plant in the world!
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Aqualite denim jeans from Lee keep ecology at centre
09/30/2013‘Aqualite’ is part of the eCREATE range that keeps ecology at the centre, as a part of a larger drive to condense Lee’s environmental impact throughout the complete process of making jeans.
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UK’s ‘first’ plastic bag recycling plant to open in London
09/27/2013Developer PlasRecycle says £10.7m facility will cut carbon and save resources by converting plastic bags and film into new black bags
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Wind Ship “Vindskip” Would Use Its Hull As a Sail
09/26/2013The company estimates this design would reduce emissions by 80 percent and fuel costs by 60 percent
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