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Textile waste to wealth
April 1st, 2025
Recovered waste from blow room (pictured) and carding areas can be recovered and turned into usable fiber for additional profit, such as comber noil, which is regularly used as recycled fiber in open-end yarn spinning to make home textiles. Image: Dreamstime.com/© Grafoo Reducing waste lessens Earth’s environmental burden and landfill problem, but it also can […]
Sustainable synthetics
April 1st, 2020
Sustainability issues leap to the forefront in creating new synthetic fibers. by Ericka Ford, Ph.D. Philosopher scientist Robert Hooke’s 17th-century belief that plants eaten by the silkworm could spin into a silk alternative was an oversimplification of the biological processes that ultimately allowed the food-satiated silkworm to spin silk. Nevertheless, the timely invention of the […]