đź’ˇ clean chemistry
Nature has introduced great variety into the landscape, but man has displayed a passion for simplifying it. Thus he undoes the built-in checks and balances by which nature holds the species within bounds.
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
Behind each novel biomaterial or bio-based innovation is a creator who hopes their findings might be the key to an alternative system—if only they’re allowed. “It’s about building a new way of thinking around these products. By integrating our materials, we understand how they interact with [the wider system]. How can we work together with the rest... See more
Blue-Green Algae May Offer Clean Alternatives for Fashion Industry | Atmos
What’s worse is that they are an invisible menace, infiltrating our air, water, homes, and bodies. In fact, there’s now a term for the invisible world of synthetic chemistry that lives inside us: the human toxome.
Alden Wicker • To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back
Our cellulose-based chemistry system is combating the invisible menace of “the human toxome,'“ which is perpetuated by synthetics and chemical systems that were never intended to interact with life.
All the evidence pointed to an alarming situation: synthetic clothing is loaded up with azo disperse dyes that clearly have toxic potential—but we’ve barely scratched the surface about what they could do to various body systems. And children and adults are breathing them in and ingesting them daily.
Alden Wicker • To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back
Such frightful substances would arrive centuries later, when fashion ushered in a new age of powerful fossil-fuel chemistry.
Alden Wicker • To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back
fashion and chemistry are co-existent
Swan put the blame squarely on “the ubiquity of insidiously harmful chemicals in the modern world” and especially “chemicals that interfere with our body’s natural hormones.” These are endocrine-disrupting chemicals. And they include a lot of fashion’s favorite finishes and ingredients: lead, mercury, arsenic, phthalates, APEOs, PFAS, and bisphenol
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chemistries that were not made to interact with life