Pollution

Denim manufacturing is set to see a transformational shift with French luxury group Kering signing an agreement with Israeli tech innovator Sonovia and Italian denim developer PureDenim.

Inspired from marine life, researchers at UAE’s Khalifa University have used mussels to develop a new nano material that can rid textile dyes among several other pollutants from wastewater.

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.

Reports on Bangladesh's ready-made garment industry are mostly about apparel workers, or the country's rising share in apparel exports. There is, however, an underbelly that remains off the radar: the unmitigated pollution of waterbodies. A report from the ground.