Every year, the textile industry uses 1.3 trillion gallons of water to dye garments – enough ... Now that the mussel-inspired nanomaterial has shown promising results in the lab, Nashef is ...

In 2013, a team of Cambridge University scientists were in Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley, developing a device to measure pollution ... their water supply, and learned that waste from textile ...

Fashion production makes up 10% of humanity's carbon emissions, dries up water ... textiles like polyester. Overall, microplastics are estimated to compose up to 31% of plastic pollution in ...

Textile factories are second only to agriculture in the amount of pollution they create and the voluminous amounts of water they use. For example, it takes approximately 500 gallons of water for a ...

Functional textiles as "suction tubes" Such superhydrophobic substances can then for instance be used to remove oil films from water surfaces efficiently and without the use of chemicals. However, ...