It ain't fashion, if it ain't sustainable

Eileen Fisher

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19 January 2024

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Spiber has completed lab scale ”proof of concept” experiments in which nutrients (sugars) were successfully extracted from post-consumer waste textiles and were used as raw materials for fermentation to produce Brewed Protein fibres.

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