Textile / bio-fabricated
Natural Textiles are derived from plant fibers, such as cotton, hemp, bamboo, flax, etc. These fibers have a low carbon footprint due to their renewable nature and the minimal energy required for their cultivation and processing. From clothing and fashion to home textiles and interior design, these materials' applications span a wide range of industries.
Bolt Threads produces MYLO™, B-Silk PROTEIN™, and MICROSILK™ naturally renewable materials for fashion.
Keel Labs is developing Kelsun™, a seaweed-based yarn with a low carbon footprint for use by the textile industry.
Peelsphere is a material innovation company making biomaterials that are completely recyclable using the closed-loop ideology. Through recycling, redesign, and reuse, it fully realizes the potential of fruit waste and algae, transforming them into products with aesthetics and performance.
Nanea is a Cradle-To-Cradle Gold certified biodegradable polyester fiber and yarn that does not emit persistent microplastics, nor does it contain antimony.
NFW is a circularity platform for plastic-free performance materials. Their multi-material platform serves a wide range of industries—from fashion and footwear to automotive and upholstery.
Textile / natural & regenerative
Natural Textiles are derived from plant fibers, such as cotton, hemp, bamboo, flax, etc. These fibers have a low carbon footprint due to their renewable nature and the minimal energy required for their cultivation and processing. From clothing and fashion to home textiles and interior design, these materials' applications span a wide range of industries.
Brentano fabrics are made from 100% bamboo viscose, a rapidly renewable and biodegradable fiber, and compliant with GOTS, Global Organic Textile Standard, guidelines, Tenderness is part of the Brentano Green fabric label and available for possible LEED points.
CommonObjective provides practical information on a wide range of sustainable fibers, fabrics, and suppliers.
huue is developing a biosynthetic, indigo blue dye for the denim industry that is free of fossil and toxic chemicals.
KD’s Vegetable Cashmere™ is a plant-based blend of fibers developed as an alternative to animal fiber cashmere. Environmentally friendly and free of animal fibers, machine-washable, sensitive skin-friendly, UV and pest resistant. It can be used in applications such as apparel, home goods and footwear.
Renewcell Circulose is a branded dissolving pulp technology that recycles 100% textile waste, such as worn-out jeans and production scraps. Fiber producers use dissolving pulp to make viscose, lyocell, modal, acetate and other kinds of biodegradable regenerated fibers.
TENCEL™ cellulosic fibers are derived from renewable raw material wood and widely used to produce textiles.
BioPuff® is an insulation designed by Ponda, a biomaterials company developing novel textiles from truly regenerative fibers to keep you warm while regenerating some of our most precious ecosystems (wetlands), a carbon restoration practice.
Textile / recycled fiber
Textiles made from recycled fibers are derived from post-consumer waste and are processed and transformed into new textile materials.
Bonded Logic manufactures insulation to solve acoustic/thermal challenges using recycled denim innovations.
Cycora® is a regenerated material created from textile waste, reducing the dependence on Earth’s raw resources.
OSOM Brand OSOMTEX upcycled textile yarns utilize post-industrial and post-consumer textile waste.
Econyl makes recycled nylon products created from the waste collected from fishing nets, carpets, and other waste nylon.
Repreve by Unifi is a fiber and yarn created from recycled plastic waste.
Convert develops new materials from fibers that reduce the amount of waste on earth through recycling and upcycling processes to make insulation mats, mats for absorbing oil, solid board, or furniture.
OSOMTEX transforms this narrative by repurposing millions of pounds of post-consumer and post-industrial textile waste into premium upcycled yarns and fabrics.
STELAPOP creates rigid panels, bricks and products in vibrant colors using textile waste born out of a desire to reduce the wood dependency while leveraging garment offsets and dead stocks using renewable processing techniques.
Carnegie's The Conscious Collection is a flexible, holistic design system for walls, panels, furniture, and windows by addressing pressing concerns of environmental sustainability and mental wellbeing.
HBF Textiles has launched three textile patterns made from 100% post-consumer recycled polyester. The three contain a catalyst that makes them 91–93 percent biodegradable.
Tiles / low embodied carbon
Tiles comprise various surface materials applied to roofs, ceilings, walls, counters, tabletops, and floors. Modern tiles continue an ancient tradition of functional and decorative purposes, now complemented by new, higher-performing, lower-embodied carbon solutions.
Armstrong, Ultima is a high-performance, energy-saving, acoustic ceiling tile made with sustainably produced carbon-sequestering biochar.
Cast Carbon produces tiles that combine biochar (pyrolyzed biomass) with natural clay, fibers, and binding minerals. It’s a clean, biodegradable material that contains no petrochemicals, Ordinary Portland Cement, glues, asbestos, resins, or crystalline silica.
