Composting fabric fights climate change
Instead of tossing that old t-shirt, use it to help plants grow.
Just add the shirt to a compost heap. That’s right — It is possible to turn fabric scraps into compost that help plants thrive.
Composting could divert textiles from landfills, said Willa Tsokanis, co-founder of Ego Sum Terra, a textile composting research initiative at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. That’s important because as fabrics decompose in landfills, they release methane, a harmful greenhouse gas c
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