Textiles for circular fashion. Part 2, From renewable carbon to fibres

This booklet is the second piece of the big puzzle called circular fashion. Harriëtte and I (and many other colleagues) are fully committed to making sustainable textiles part of WUR, as it fits very well in our mission “To explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life”. Like part 1 of this series, it is a combination of general information on origin of materials, production methods, lots of (polymer)chemistry and material properties. And again, I tried to simplify the chemistry as much as possible, but sometimes it was inevitable to include some complex parts