do you know? Coconut waste can also make fabric fibers!

Environmental awareness has risen. As the second largest natural resource consumption and pollution industry in the world, the clothing industry is also changing year by year, from bamboo and hemp to recycled plastics. Now Australian biotechnology company Nanollose is further using coconut waste to develop plant-free rayon fabrics that are much cleaner than cotton.

The reason why the garment industry is known as the second largest polluting industry is that the raw materials for manufacturing textiles occupy a large amount of agricultural land for planting, not to mention that the subsequent processes consume a lot of chemicals to eliminate pests and process fibers, and a large amount of precious water is wasted during the period.

Allfie Germano, president of Nanollose, pointed out that in order to create man-made fibers currently used in clothing fabrics, it is necessary to cut down countless trees, chop them and then process the wood pulp with dangerous chemicals, and it takes 2,700 to make enough cotton for a T-shirt. Litre water is equivalent to one person drinking water for two and a half years.

One-off culture has shaped the shopping habits we used to lose, like new and old, especially clothing, we rarely reflect on the waste of resources behind. In order to change the culture, many designers have launched new textiles. For example, Dutch designer Aniela Hoitink has developed clothing from mushroom mycelium, which can be directly added to the compost rank after being discarded.

But do we have the opportunity to wear new clothes without cutting trees? Perhaps, Nanollose is now developing an exclusive technology that uses organic coconut waste to convert rayon, called “Nullarbor,” which has shown the first Finished fabrics completely free of plant fibers.

The fiber is actually "fermented" by some non-infectious microbe. According to "small caps", the company's concept of "fermentation fashion" originated in 2006, when company founder Gary Cass was just an agricultural scientist. The winemaker, who first brewed a bad wine, and then found it fermented into dry leather, eventually founded Nanollose in 2014.

In addition to coconut waste, the new technology may also convert raw waste from beverages such as wine and beer into fiber, eliminating the need to invest large amounts of land, pesticides and irrigation water; Nanollose has signed with Indonesian food manufacturer PT Supra Natami Utama Memorandum, preparing to obtain large amounts of coconut waste and mass producing man-made fibers.