When Meghan Kelly goes clothes shopping, she scans labels for a key number: 100%. She picks garments made of 100% cotton, 100% wool, and occasionally 100% polyester, avoiding fabrics that blend ...

This fiber has numerous advantages over traditional fabrics like cotton. Polyester does not absorb moisture easily, making it naturally resistant to stains, mold, and bacteria, which contributes ...

TOKYO — May 19, 2025 — Teijin Frontier Co., Ltd., announced today that it has developed a new high-performance polyester ...

Fiber producers, denim mills and brands are working together to minimize stretch denim's environmental impact.

A recent study finds that microplastics from biobased fibers like viscose and lyocell are more toxic to earthworms than those from petrochemical-based polyester (Environ. Sci. Technol. 2024 ...

Staple fibers are short-length fibers commonly used in the textile industry for spinning yarn, producing nonwoven fabrics, ...

The remaining polyester fibers can be reprocessed using available ... starts with fully removing all cotton from the fabric using superconcentrated hydrochloric acid at room temperature.