Cotton is an important raw material ... primarily of a natural polymer known as cellulose. Evidence of cotton being grown, spun and woven into cloth can be traced as far back as 3,000 BC in ...

Swedish dishcloths are made from a combination of cotton and wood pulp, a.k.a cellulose, a fibrous material that's derived from trees. (Most of the brands I tested were 70% wood p ...

In 2024, it achieved the number one ranking, which is recognition from Canopy, a non-profit environmental organization that evaluates companies based on their sustainability practices. These accolades ...

An environmentally friendly method to turn fabric back into fibre is ... technology to recycle textiles, based on cotton being an excellent cellulose feedstock. The research is part of IFM ...

Two pieces of fabric from a Dutch police officer’s ... the patented tech uses super-strong HCl to break down the cotton cellulose and turn it into glucose. That now-recovered, not-for-coffee ...

Cotton is largely cellulose ... of clothing to avoid the 15–20% of material wasted by cutting fabric. Bacterial cellulose might offer a way to reduce our reliance on the fibers we use to ...