Due to the on-going effects of the textiles industry and its enormous, polluted impacts on climate change, the industry is causing more damage than ever before. This is due to the toxic chemicals being produced in textiles, as well as the billions of microfibers that are floating around this earth harming animals and ecosystems. Plastic in the textiles industry is also another big issue as ‘plastic is a substance the earth cannot digest.’ However, we can make a plastic that the earth can digest and even be nutrients through this. By taking the notion and life span of nature and putting it into the textiles industry we are able to create regenerative product that have a shorter more natural lifespan. Through exploring the material innovation of bioplastics, I have discovered that bioplastics can also help reduce the reliance of fossil fuels in production as the manufacture and degenerating of this material takes and gives nothing. Thus, supporting my ideology of ‘designing for the now and decay’. Whilst having a natural life-span.
What if this was brought into everyday textiles objects, what if these objects were able to give back to the earth regenerating it when the item has been successfully used up? This project explores this and the different surface decorations that can be implemented in bioplastic.
