A young woman has slammed stores for charging high prices for products primarily made of polyester. TikTok user Amber Sabri (@missambersabri) - the daughter of parents who work in the fashion industry ...

A woman has gone viral after warning viewers about the dangers of polyester. At the time of writing, Ryan-Alexandra (@ryanalexandrapetit) has amassed 1.6 million ...

The new technique can help break mixed-fiber clothing back down into feedstock for future textiles. Less than 1% of clothing is recycled, and most of the rest ends up dumped in a landfill or burned. A ...

A new bill in the California State Assembly would require that all clothing made from fabric that is primarily polyester bear a label warning that the garment sheds plastic microfibres when washed.

Image of heaps of apparel and other waste via Getty Images Polyester is a widely-used clothing fibre in the clothing industry because of its longevity, and accounts for 60% clothes that are worn, ...

Polyester is the refined sugar of our wardrobes: It’s cheap, has an iffy reputation and is in almost everything, from stretchy leggings to $4,000 jackets. An estimated 34 million tons of it went into ...

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Scientists at the University of Portsmouth are to develop ‘plastic-eating’ enzymes that could help solve the ever-growing problem of waste polyester clothing. Polyester is the most widely-used ...

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