Spinning Future Threads

Spinning Future Threads_Final PDF Report.pdf

According to the Laudes Foundation, "This report explores a new avenue for materials innovation in textile manufacturing – harnessing the potential of agricultural waste and residues as an alternative feedstock for producing textile fibres at scale. This cutting-edge innovation offers strong potential to decrease extensive crop burning and its associated negative environmental and climate impacts; generate new, additive low-cost revenue streams for low-income agricultural communities in South and Southeast Asia; and, activate a scalable and more environmentally sustainable source of fibre for the booming apparel and fashion industry".