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Charlotte McCurdy, Phillip Lim design carbon-neutral algae sequin dress

AGreenLiving

Sequins have long been a source of concern for environmentally conscious fashion designers. Made of tiny bits of shiny or translucent plastic, they are a significant contributor to ocean microplastics and fashion-derived plastic waste. The dress is entirely carbon-neutral and free from synthetic plastics or dyes.

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Seaweed Girl explores seaweed as an eco-textile for sustainable fashion

AGreenLiving

Sustainable fashion is on the rise, with materials from plastic water bottles to vegan apple leather becoming more and more common in the industry every day. Recent design graduate Jasmine Linington is taking sustainable fashion a step further with a new couture collection that uses seaweed-derived textiles. Originally posted here:Â .

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? Spinning CO2 into clothes

Climate Tech VC

fashion industry , which accounts for ~10% of global CO2 emissions —more than aviation and shipping combined. Read more about the industry’s footprint in our sustainable fashion deep dive ]. In the meantime, Rubi aims to capture the CO2 from industrial processes and use it to make apparel inputs carbon-negative.

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Allbirds creates a plant-based leather

AGreenLiving

Made with rubber, vegetable oil and other natural ingredients, this leather alternative, aptly named Plant Leather, has 40 times less carbon impact than animal-derived leather and 17 times less carbon impact than synthetic leathers made from plastics. Plant Leather has a small carbon footprint and is fully biodegradable.

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Pineapple, Banana & Coconut: Sustainable Fabrics – Out of the Kitchen and Into the Closet

Unsustainable

It’s incredibly versatile, strong, sustainably grown, and biodegradable. Their processing and manufacture is also nearly carbon neutral. Green Banana Paper in the Philippines, as well as fashion houses such as Offset Warehouse, THIS Co., It provides a secondary income to growers and is environmentally neutral.

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Is the end nigh for questionable climate claims in UK adverts?

Business Green

Today, the ASA said it would carry out a six-month monitoring period after updating its guidance which would be particularly focused on the "carbon neutral" and "net zero" claims abounding in company advertising. But they urged the regulator to now move faster to crack down on misleading environmental marketing across the economy.

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Greenwashing terms to avoid at any cost

Business Green

Carbon offset. Does the carbon offset provider use sound science and accounting practices to back up the claims it makes about its carbon offsets? The FTC said in December that it expects comments on 'carbon offsets' in particular for the next Green Guides. Degradable / Biodegradable. Low carbon.