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

Modern Farmer

As the companies see it, the process is more efficient than growing fibers naturally; traditional silk, for example, is biodegradable and long-lasting, but cultivation can use large amounts of water and pesticides. The polymer can yield various end products depending on the twisting of yarns. “I have one customer in the world.”

Textiles 101
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More things in Heaven and Earth: Mycorrhizal fungi, ploughing, no-till and glyphosate

Sustainable Food Trust

By ‘lack of humus’ he is referring to the increasing trend, even then, to dispense with returning organic matter to the soil, for example, in the form of composted farmyard manure, that was made possible by the development of synthetic fertilisers. Similar products are also used in other agricultural and horticultural crops.