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Sustainable fashion is a fashion industry that promotes environmental friendliness.
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With the development of modern science, engineering and technology, and the growing awareness of environmental protection of many people, new, more environmentally friendly material technology trends are born.
1. Technology for producing dyes from bacteria
The textile industry has long been considered an environmentally friendly industry.
This is the reason why there is an increasing need to choose less toxic products of natural origin.
A bio-based garment created by Faber Futures in partnership with Ginkgo BioWorks, using naturally occurring pigment-producing bacteria.
How can we see the negative effects that artificial fabrics and chemical dyes are silently destroying on the planet?
Just look at the rivers in China and Bangladesh that carry the colors of chemical dyes from clothes, due to their improper disposal.
Fabric is dyed with bacteria containing natural color pigments.
Aiming to solve problems in the construction and innovation of materials, to serve the whole fashion industry.
This technique significantly reduces the use of dyeing wastewater.
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Although there are still obstacles in this method, the results that Chieza obtained in a bacterial culture dish on how the bacteria secrete completely natural color pigments, serve the dyeing process
This is a good sign for the sustainable fashion industry, as well as a new direction for the textile industry.
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2. Artificial leather produced in a laboratory
Behind designer handbags and leather shoes are more than a billion animals and reptiles that are beaten to death and skinned alive every year. Leather tanning is one of the most polluting industries.
In general, the leather industry must always go hand in hand with the meat industry because we cannot have a piece of real leather without killing an animal.
A T-shirt made from cotton and artificially tanned leather from Modern Meadow.( Photo Adam Fithers/Modern Meadow)
Recently, Modern Meadow, a company in the US, created an artificial skin from animal stem cells.
We can see the amazing sustainable benefits that this type of artificial leather brings.