SAN DIEGO, Calif. — From fungi to pineapple fiber, a growing number of clothing brands are embracing eco-friendly materials. “I don’t think they have an option. I think consumers are waking ...

The combination of these two opposing realities makes larger questions about how to source the fiber we use to make clothing much more difficult ... who believes the potential of such technologies is ...

In a breakthrough for bio-based materials, scientists have made leather from the fibers of discarded pineapple leaves ... larger scale for everything from clothing to bags and shoes.

The fabric is made by extracting fibers from the pineapple leaves after harvest ... bags, upholstery, clothing, pet leashes, and more. It has already been adopted by 1,000 shoe companies, fashion ...

The three-year-old streetwear clothing brand Pangaia has made ... are made from bamboo lyocell, as well as pineapple and banana-leaf fibers. Parkes points out that the company doesn’t use ...

pineapple leaves and hemp stalks into natural fiber that can be woven into clothing. “We want to enable food crops to become our primary fibers,” Circular Systems CEO and co-founder Isaac ...

Hijosa turned to pineapple fibers, which people in the Philippines ... which has been picked up and made into clothing by companies like Nike, Hugo Boss, and Calvin Klein. While Pinatex still ...

Other emerging natural fibers include lotus, pineapple and banana fibers ... Recycling plastics such as drink bottles to make clothing is also becoming more common. Such innovations can help ...

The new leather is based on the fibers of discarded pineapple leaves ... and could be used to produce large-scale items like clothing, bags, and shoes. Researchers at Thailand’s Mahidol ...

and transforming them into clothing. Their latest effort is a straw made from leftover pineapple leaf fiber. Food Ribbon touts the straws as an environmentally friendly product made of a natural ...

Pineapple leaves are spun into natural fibers for clothing, while stems are turned into animal feed additives that support digestion and improve livestock health. In a pilot program last year, Cava ...