Sustainability of Bamboo Based Fabrics (Article Sample)

Sustainability of bamboo based fabrics.
Bamboo as a raw material is a sustainable resource for the emerging trends in fashion.The fact that it is eco friendly makes bamboo fabrics biodegradable.Bamboo is the vernacular term for perennial, giant woody evergreen plants in the grass family Poaceae (syn. Gramineae); subfamily Bambusoideae (Scurlock et al. HYPERLINK "https://fashionandtextiles.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40691-015-0054-5#ref-CR78"2000; Sungkaew et al. HYPERLINK "https://fashionandtextiles.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40691-015-0054-5#ref-CR86"2009; Hodkinson et al. HYPERLINK "https://fashionandtextiles.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40691-015-0054-5#ref-CR38"2010; Panda HYPERLINK "https://fashionandtextiles.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40691-015-0054-5#ref-CR68"2011; Yeasmin et al. HYPERLINK "https://fashionandtextiles.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40691-015-0054-5#ref-CR99"2015).Bamboo plants are found especially in Africa
Bamboo’s sustainability and marketability starts with the plant itself. It is a natural fiber which means it is renewable. Natural bamboo fabric is Super soft and possesses high absorbency and antimicrobial properties but the chemical process bamboo rayon destroys this antimicrobial effect (Rodie HYPERLINK "https://fashionandtextiles.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40691-015-0054-5#ref-CR75"2008).Not forgetting the fact that bamboo fabrics are machine washable especially now for this century.This means you wont be burdened about cleaning your bamboo fabric.Dystar Ecology Solutions reported that so long as bamboo fiber is produced by the viscose process, it will not