World Oceans Day, celebrated annually on June 8, aims to raise awareness about the ocean’s health and the challenges it faces ...

4. Ocean Collection from Oliveira Textiles For whimsical eco textiles, look no further than Oliveira Textiles. The firm's debut Ocean Collection is made of sustainably harvested and rapidly ...

Textiles were the centrepiece of India’s Indian Ocean trade and had a defining influence on global tastes. While fragments of Indian fabrics have been unearthed at various sites in the world as ...

Synthetic textiles, including so-called compostable ... showed no signs of degradation even after more than a year submerged in the ocean. "This study shows the need for standardizing tests ...

It’s hard to say how much microplastics from textiles contributes to the overall plastic pollution problem in the ocean. Because microplastics are so tiny — and many of them end up deep in the ...

Fabrics made of Polylactic Acid (PLA), a so-called biodegradable plastic, and the oil-based portions of textile blends, showed no signs of degradation even after more than a year submerged in the ...