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Are Next-Gen Synthetic Fibers the Future of Sustainable Textiles?

Modern Farmer

Both durable and efficient, with no need for farmland or vast amounts of water, it threatened to leave natural fibers like cotton in the dust. percent of the world’s farmland but uses 4.7 Naturally colored cotton, bred by Sally Fox, growing at her Viriditas farm in California’s Capay Valley. Enter next-gen synthetics.

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