Renting clothes can reduce the fashion industry's enormous environmental impact, but so far, the business models have not worked very well, says a study arguing that the best chance of success is for a rental company to provide clothing within a niche market, such as specific sportswear, and to work closely with the suppliers and clothing manufacturers.
A research group, led by Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, has come up with an ordinary silk thread, coated with a conductive plastic material, that shows promising properties for turning textiles into electricity generators.
A new study from Sweden’s Chalmers University of Technology that examined the driving forces behind laundering behaviours, provides new tools for how people's environmental impact can be reduced.
In a discovery that could have implications for countries with poor water treatment technologies and combat widespread problem of toxic dye discharge from textiles industry, a breakthrough new method can easily purify contaminated water using a cellulose-based material.
