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PARIS: What if your underwear (quần lót) could help you grow tomatoes (trồng cà chua)? It may sound like a strange idea, but it’s actually an innovative way to tackle the problem of waste in the fashion industry.

In the US, one brand is revolutionising the world of underwear with a fully compostable material, offering a way to reduce textile waste (chất thải) while giving something back to the Earth.

All kinds of ideas are emerging in the fashion industry to reduce the sector’s environmental impact, such as clothing rental, resale and upcycling. But one clothing category remains problematic: underwear.

This is due to the widespread use of elastane, a material that is not recycled, but also the fact that women’s and men’s undergarments cannot be sold second hand.

As a result, at the end of their life, these pieces are inevitably added to the millions of tons of textile waste generated by the fashion industry each year.

This is a problem that the American brand Kent, founded by the Canadian entrepreneur Stacy Grace, is addressing by only selling underwear made from natural materials that could – over time – return to nature. This, in other words, means compostable underwear.

More concretely, the company has chosen to shun synthetic materials– like elastane, nylon, polyester, spandex – and to focus on a natural and organic premium material called Pima cotton.

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