Bottles and bags, food wrappers and straws. Piping, packaging, toys and trays. Plastic is everywhere — and yet some people may be surprised at how much they actually wear. A typical closet is loaded ...

Is polyester bad for the environment? It starts as crude oil. We trace the 5-step process from oil well to fabric — and why it's more harmful than you'd think.

A typical closet is loaded with plastic, woven into polyester activewear, acrylic sweaters, nylon swimsuits and stretchy socks—and it’s shedding into the environment nonstop. When garments are worn, ...

Plastic is unavoidable in today's world. We wear clothes made of it, encase our food in it, and fill our homes with it. The benefits of the omnipresent material are clear: It's cheap to create, ...

A new campaign to promote American-grown cotton to consumers sounds nice — but is far more complicated than the administration is making it sound. In between beef tallow fries, raw milk, and vaccine ...

We don’t often think of our clothing as plastic, but much of it is. Polyester, nylon, acrylic and other synthetic fibers are commonplace in the blended fabrics we wear every day. As a result, textiles ...

Our clothes are made mainly of plastic. Unlike cotton, which comes from a plant, polyester and the well-known spandex or lycra — which make clothes more stretchy — do not grow in nature. These are ...

THEY’RE DOING TO FIGHT BACK. IT’S ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT WE NEED TO START CHANGING. WHAT WE DO NOW, BECAUSE THE IMPACTS ARE POTENTIALLY REALLY DETRIMENTAL. MICROPLASTICS, TINY BITS OF PLASTIC LESS ...

Today, fitness apparel is dominated by plastic-based fibers like polyester, nylon, and spandex, prized for their affordability and performance. But that convenience had led to overconsumption of ...