Plastic sheets are a total waste of money when it comes to plants, but the strongest negative is that plastic sheets or fabrics hurt the most important part of the soil — the surface.

Landscape fabric blocks nutrients. You can’t easily add compost, fertilizer, or other soil amendments when a sheet of ...

USING cloth bags for shopping is observed more and more. It is an eco-friendly way to reduce plastic waste. Millennials and ...

Landscape fabric aims to achieve weed-free flower beds and gravel paths, ... Instead of laying down a plastic barrier that will stop working in a few years, just prepare the area properly.

To be fair, landscape fabric has its place. Unfortunately, it’s widely misused in most home landscape applications, where it ...

To make the resulting plastic more fabric-like, they created a triple-layer material with two pieces of the polyethylene sandwiching a cotton mesh. Advertisement. Advertisement.

Engineers have developed self-cooling fabrics from polyethylene, commonly used in plastic bags. They estimate that the new fabric may be more sustainable than cotton and other common textiles.

MIT engineers have found a new use for a common plastic, spinning polyethylene into fabric that can passively cool the wearer by allowing heat through and moisture to evaporate. The discovery ...

BUSTI — “Saving the Earth one plastic bottle at a time,” is a catchy eco-friendly slogan to put on a T-shirt to encourage recycling. But what if that T-shirt is also made from recycled plastic bottles ...

(CN) — A plastic-based textile that can cool your body more efficiently than other natural or synthetic fabrics has been developed, offering a low-cost option to keep people cooler in poorer nations ...

MIT engineers have developed self-cooling fabrics from polyethylene, commonly used in plastic bags. They estimate that the new fabric may be more sustainable than cotton and other common textiles.