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Seaweed and mushrooms transform fashion


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Pakistani labourers pick cotton in a field in Bahawalpur district in Pakistan’s central Punjab province In November 2015. AFP
Seaweed and mushrooms transform fashion
Mon, 24 May 2021
From making algae-sequin dresses, dyeing clothes with bacteria to planting trackable pigments in cotton, an emerging tide of technological innovations offers the fashion industry a chance to clean up its woeful environmental record.
Change is urgently needed, since the industry consumes 93 billion cubic metres of water per year, dumps 500,000 tonnes of plastic microfibres into the ocean, and accounts for 10 per cent of global carbon emissions, according to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.
The growing demands for change have generated ingenious responses, such as New York designer Charlotte McCurdy’s seaweed raincoat. ....

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Fashion's green future of seaweed coats and mushroom shoes


Fashion s green future of seaweed coats and mushroom shoes
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US designer Charlotte McCurdy has used seaweed to make a raincoast. - Charlotte McCurdy/AFP
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Paris (AFP)
From making algae-sequin dresses, dyeing clothes with bacteria to planting trackable pigments in cotton, an emerging tide of technological innovations offers the fashion industry a chance to clean up its woeful environmental record.
Change is urgently needed, since the industry consumes 93 billion cubic metres of water per year, dumps 500,000 tonnes of plastic microfibres into the ocean, and accounts for 10 percent of global carbon emissions, according to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.
The growing demands for change have generated ingenious responses, such as New York designer Charlotte McCurdy s seaweed raincoat. ....

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