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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. Textiles are a major source of microplastics in the ocean, where they weave their way into the food chain, causing untold harms to marine life. percent of the world’s farmland but uses 4.7

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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Civil Eats

Today, the approximately 40,000 Black farmers remaining in America own less than 1 percent of the countrys farmland. He sells the hemp to BioPhil Natural Fibers in Lumberton, which processes it into woven materials, textiles, and clothing. He fertilizes with compost tea, a mixture he creates of compost and water.