Fashion players team up to slash textiles' water and carbon footprint

Cecilia Keating
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A display at the Fashion for Good future of fashion museum in Amsterdam | Credit: Fashion for Good
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A display at the Fashion for Good future of fashion museum in Amsterdam | Credit: Fashion for Good

Plasma and laser treatments, spray dyeing, foam dyeing and supercritical CO2 all set to be tested in Fashion for Good scheme, which aims to accelerate the shift from wet to dry processing of textiles

A new sustainability initiative for the fashion sector is aiming to bring together eight different companies working on innovative solutions to reduce the environmental impact of materials processing,...

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