Natural Capitalism

Natural Capitalism

Chapter 9

Nature's Filaments

The chapter opens with a description of the industrial revolutions that made growing, harvesting and using cotton and wood for our clothes, papers and homes exponentially easier. Then, petrochemical industry came along with synthetic fibers that, while they relieved the burden on growing and harvesting natural fibers, they produce a great deal of pollution and use nonrenewable resources. Paper as an industry is also incredibly inefficient and expensive to our natural resources, and has produced an incredible amount of landfill waste before recycling became the norm.

It is appropriate that a textile company like Interface should be in ...