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New perspectives in fashion sustainability through the use of bacterial cellulose
Summary
This review examines how bacterial cellulose can open new sustainability pathways for the fashion industry, exploring its potential as a bio-based material to reduce the sector's high environmental impact from accelerating production cycles and increasing textile waste.
Fashion constitutes a sector with a high environmental impact, particularly because of shorter product life cycles and an exponential increase in the speed of production and in the number of goods created, sold, or unconsumed and thrashed. This paper aims to explore new perspectives of design and production processes toward environmental, social, and cultural sustainability through bio-fabrication. After an analysis of the context of reference and a review of existing literature, the research focuses on experimentation with bacterial cellulose (BC) to investigate the limits and potentials of controlled growth, waste processing and integration, accessories creation and recyclability, and the assembly/disassembly of clothing and/or accessories at the end of life.
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