More than 300 million trees are cut down each year to make fashion fibers, as companies look for alternatives to wood-based raw materials. Promising experiments ranging from agricultural byproducts to desert plants could reach industrial scale in the coming years, Reuters reported.
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More than 300 million trees are cut down each year to make fashion fibers, as companies look for alternatives to wood-based raw materials. Promising experiments ranging from agricultural byproducts to desert plants could reach industrial scale in the coming years, Reuters reported.