INTRODUCTION

Sustainable materials are materials used throughout our consumer and industrial economy that can be produced in required volumes without depleting non-renewable resources and without disrupting the established steady-state equilibrium of the environment and key natural resource systems.  Material choice directly affects the raw material sourcing like farming and petroleum drilling impact, material processing like chemicals or energy needed to turn it into fibre, and end-of-life prospects like can it be recycled or composted. Some of the most common options are:

• regenerated fibres,
• organic fibres,
• recycled materials,
• biobased materials,
• waste/deadstock materials,
• cruelty free materials,
• vegan materials.