The dirty business of making new clothes tries to clean up
Wednesday, October 21, 2015 - 11:00
in Physics & Chemistry
Processing fabric for the latest fashions and other textile-based products today requires thousands of chemicals, some of which are toxic and cause 20 percent of the world's water pollution. To reduce its environmental footprint, the textile industry is making changes, designing safer chemicals and turning to nature to find replacements to potentially harmful compounds, according to an article in Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society.