By one estimate, around 350 million barrels of crude oil a year are used to make synthetic textiles. If it’s tweaked to look and feel like leather, it could help avoid the environmental and ...

Synthetic textiles were once hailed as the future of fashion. Now, we all have to reckon with the consequences. ABC Business. How synthetic textiles made from plastic took over the fashion industry.

Synthetic fabric made from fossil fuels, such as polyester, now dominate the apparel market, but most of the fibers that form the base of materials we use today haven’t changed in decades.

The fashion industry's reliance on fossil fuels for textile production is contributing to environmental damage, including pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, and microplastic waste.

Dublin, April 18, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Composite Textiles Market Size, Share, Trend, Forecast, Competitive Analysis, and Growth Opportunity: 2023-2028" report has been added to ...

Paradise Textiles unveils bio-synthetic jacket prototype. Alpine Group's material science hub Paradise Textiles has teamed up with material science company Kintara Fibres to create the so-called ...

And as the fast fashion industry took off in the 1990s, synthetic textiles proved "absolutely essential", Dr Rollason says. "The ultra-fast fashion industry is pretty much dependent on these ...