Products must be environmentally friendly as well as conform with the market in order to go for a sustainable society. A tool named Eco-Value Analysis (Eco-VA) has been developed by modifying the traditional Value Analysis (VA). Eco-VA allows product developers to analyze functions of a product from economic costs, customers’ importance, and environmental impacts. However, Eco-VA has the follow...

The enormous usage of synthetic dyes in various industries, chiefly textiles and paper industries, has posed a considerable health and environmental hazard. This dictates the need for amendment in the textile coloration technology by using natural origin pigments to replace the existing toxic, mutagenic and teratogenic dyes. Therefore, the scientists have recently focused their attention on app...

The natural world around us provides excellent examples of functional systems built with a handful of materials. Throughout the millennia, nature has evolved to adapt and develop highly sophisticated methods to solve problems. There are numerous examples of functional surfaces, fibrous structures, structural colours, self-healing, thermal insulation, etc., which offer important lessons for the ...

Challenges and opportunities•The development of bio-based, recyclable fibers that replicate the materials properties commercial textile fibers.•The timely degradation bioengineered with advanced (e.g., elasticity, wicking) within natural soil marine environments.•A circular economy transforms waste streams into engineered, biodegradable for sustainable textiles. Current production processing pr...