A new BioSusTex-supported paper explores the historical incorporation of environmental limits in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), exploring how sustainability assessment in Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) can move beyond comparing which product is greener and begin asking a harder question: does a product operate within the environmental limits of our planet? When companies describe a product as “more sustainable”, the comparison is usually relative. A new material may use

A new BioSusTex-supported study shows how dark, reactive-dyed cotton waste can be transformed into a white, reusable feedstock while preserving the fibre properties needed to make new textiles. What happens to a black T-shirt, navy cotton shirt or dark green bedsheet when it reaches the end of its useful life? The cotton itself may still be valuable. The colour, however, can make recycling surprisingly difficult. A new study by researchers from Aalto University published in A

A new BioSusTex-supported review explores how water-saving and waterless dyeing technologies could reduce pollution, conserve freshwater and help make textile production more circular. Colour is one of the first things we notice about clothing. Yet behind a brightly coloured shirt, pair of trousers or household textile is an industrial process that can consume large volumes of water, energy and chemicals. A new open-access review, “Non-aqueous textile dyeing,” examines how te