Pallas Textiles has released a series of textiles for interior design applications that utilise recycled plastic recovered ...

"You can go literally from trash to a high-performance garment that provides comfort and can be recycled multiple times back into a new garment." Samples of plastic fabrics created by the research ...

The Tenfold Clothing company makes T-shirts from recycled plastic bottles ... into little chips that are melted down into beads and the beads of plastic are made into yarn to make fabric. When people ...

Recycled fabrics begin as spools of yarn made from recycled plastic waste. When PolarFleece fabric first hit the market, the timing was right. Yvon Chouinard, the founder of Patagonia, was ...

None of us has voted for more plastics in our lives, our ocean or our bodies.

Vin and Omi have developed 11 'eco-textiles', including 'leathers' made from the skins of chestnuts, and wool-like fabrics made from recycled plastic bottles. "It all started when we made this t ...

Most small plastics don’t get recycled, and putting them in your bins could end up doing more harm than good, experts say.

Using recycled polyester to make new fabric, on the other hand, uses less energy and resources. You use already existing plastic to make the new material, so you don’t need to get coal and petroleum ...