With the fashion industry slowly starting to prioritize textiles that are just as easy on the planet as they are beautiful to the eye, new fabrics and technologies are making it possible for sustainability efforts to work in harmony with the apparel industry.
With many new retailers making clothing from recycled bottles and other upcycled materials, new trends in fashion are making strides for the planet as well. But, many retailers are still missing the mark when it comes to considering the end life of the garment.
Introduce biodegradable fabrics
An exciting solution to this problem has arisen in the form of biodegradable fabrics. When exposed to microbes that can be found in the ocean or landfill conditions, these new innovative fabrics will break down quickly leaving just water, methane, carbon dioxide, and biomass. This means, they'll last for years on your body, but once they head to landfill, they will break down quickly. It also means that with each wash cycle, you're sending less microfibers into the ocean.
Mana Threads goes biodegradable
"In researching fabrics, I learned about the industry's environmental impact on the planet." says Amelia Leme, founder of Mana Threads, "The reality is, we don’t need another clothing company, we need more clothing being produced that is better for our health and for the planet. Knowing the environmental impact, I had to make changes to my product to still have my purpose and my passion align. As a small business, that was a change I could make, to use fabric that was high performance but better for the planet."
Historically, the fashion industry and fast fashion has been a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions and overproduction of textiles. However, it's new technologies like biodegradable fabric that will pave the way for sweeping changes in the fashion industry, and together, allow us to continue to be gentler to our planet.
To see more of Mana Threads new biodegradable collection, head here:
https://manathreads.com/collections/new-biodegradable-collection
To read more about our biodegradable fabrics, click here:
https://manathreads.com/pages/ourfabrics
Seasons of life
What if you still planned to run that race that was cancelled from Covid, dedicated yourself to a training regimen and showed up on race day, even if to complete the “race” alone? What if you still climbed that mountain even if the person you always climbed mountains with is not physically at your side any longer? What if you set aside 30 min a day from rushing through the “To Do” list to instead walk in the woods, touch the trees, breathe in the leaves and allow the fall chilled breeze to wrap you up in its embrace? What if you felt and recognized the sometimes crippling depression calling you back to bed but instead you called a friend and allowed them to take your hand, get you out in the fresh air and even just sit in silence together? What if instead of closing in and becoming rigid we actively chose to hold space for our losses by honoring our grief while simultaneously choosing to actively to give attention to what returns us to innocence and heals us from the inside out.
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Amelia Leme
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