Cleaning Up The Dirty Business Of Making New Clothes

Thursday, October 22, 2015 - 01:50 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. read more

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