These include synthetic textile fibres from washing clothes and microplastics released from car tyres or when unscrewing plastic bottle caps. Researchers also found virgin plastic pellets, the raw ...

First, many products manufactured from fossil fuels (energy, other fuels and chemicals) could be produced by ‘feeding’ microbes with waste plastics, carbon dioxide, methane or organic matter ...

and these synthetic fabrics are a major source of microplastic contamination. "As we wear clothing that's increasingly plastic, those fibres shed, go down the drain, [and] wind up in the local ...

LENZING, Austria — March 20, 2025 — The Lenzing Group, a supplier of regenerated cellulose fibers for the textile and nonwovens industries, is presenting the Lenzing Young Scientist Award at the ...

The researchers believe the receptor proteins function to link large structural proteins during fiber formation ... Traditional plastics and synthetic fibers are typically made using petroleum ...

‘The long term of our research is to be able to predict what the mechanical properties of these fibres will be using computational methods,’ says Graham. This multiscale approach is crucial in ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Synthetic Leather Market by Type (PU Based, PVC Based, and Bio Based), End-Use Industry (Footwear, Furnishing, Automotive, Clothing ...