February 14, 2024 New online course to help manufacturers curb microfiber pollution
The Microfibre Consortium (TMC), in partnership with Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals (ZDHC), launches a new course designed to help textile manufacturers reduce the release of microfibers into wastewater during production processes....
August 10, 2023 What’s it going to be: Planet or Plastics?
The Earth Day theme for 2024 – Planet vs. Plastics – is a call to arms to reduce the production of plastics with 60% by 2040. Earthday.org’s Director of End Plastics Aidan Charron shares why the plastic curve needs to...
July 3, 2023 EU Green Deal Risks INCREASING Textile Consumption
The EU’s impending apparel legislation is ambitious, but Tone Skårdal Tobiasson, author and journalist, doubts it will do anything to reduce overproduction – on the contrary, it might amplify it. Her solution? Targeted Producer Responsibility....
February 21, 2023 New “Shed Less” Tech Can Reduce Microfiber Pollution
Polartec introduces Shed Less Technology that dramatically reduces fiber fragmentation in laundering tests. The Iconic 200 Series fleece is to be the first fabric made from this new process....
April 29, 2022 A Call to Action on Microfibers
The Microfibre Consortium issues rallying cry for textile industry to adapt manufacturing to better control microfibers in wastewater....
September 22, 2021 Microplastics and Microfibers
In less than a century, the versatility and affordability of plastic has found applications just about everywhere we look today. Unfortunately, it is also everywhere we would rather not find it....
September 21, 2021 A Science-Based Microfiber Roadmap is Released
The Microfibre Consortium urges industry to sign major new 2030 commitment to reduce microfiber fragmentation and pollution....
November 5, 2019 Where did Microfibers go?
A few years ago, everyone was talking about microfibers. The sustainability discussion has since moved on - but that didn’t mean the problem was solved....
February 11, 2019 A Fiber for Life
The keratin fiber, wool, has evolved along with the rest of life on Planet Earth. As part of the natural carbon cycle, wool grows on sheep and biodegrades readily – making wool fiber a naturally sustainable choice....
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