Can Cotton Keep Pace With Modern Textile Needs?
Cotton — long celebrated as a trustworthy natural textile — is at the center of a quiet but consequential conversation unfolding across farms, factories and closets. As designers experiment with new blends, manufacturers refine processing methods, and consumers rethink what they want from everyday garments, one question keeps coming up: can cotton fiber continue to…
Can Emerging Recycling Strategies Rethink Waste Management and Drive a Circular Economy?
Municipal waste and discarded materials have moved from a background concern to a central topic in discussions about climate, urban planning and economic resilience. Around the world, existing disposal pathways often rely on methods that remove materials from productive cycles, creating environmental harm and losing economic value. At the same time, a growing set of…
Are Composite Workplaces Doing Enough To Protect Workers’ Health?
As industries from aerospace to automotive and marine continue to rely on composite materials, a growing number of safety professionals and workers are asking the same question: are current workplace practices sufficient to guard against the combined chemical and particulate hazards that composites create? Composite production and repair bring together resin systems, curing agents and…