Washing your clothes made from synthetic fabrics like acrylic, nylon, and polyester causes them to shed hundreds of thousands of microplastic fibers. Now, new research shows that just wearing ...

Today we make more clothing than ever before. And the driver for this is primarily economic, rather than human need. Over the past decade, the term “circular economy” has entered the fashion industry ...

To help global polyester fiber manufacturers, exporters, and related suppliers efficiently expand into the Vietnamese market, the analyst releases the "Vietnam Polyester Fiber Import Guide 2023-2025." ...

Dublin, Nov. 28, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Polyester Fiber Market by Form (Solid and Hollow), Grade (PET Polyester Fiber and Pcdt Polyester Fiber), Product type (PFY and PSF), Application (Textile ...

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(CNN) -- Tinymicrofiberstrands,washed into the ocean from laundering our clothes or from industrial wastewater, are polluting one of the most remote regions on Earth. While microplastics -- those ...

A heat map showing the distribution and concentration of fibers from the test blanket in 14 plots that were sampled. The bigger and darker the circle, the more fibers were found at the test location.