SBIO 2013 finalist Thread, which creates fabric from plastic bottle waste collected in the developing world, has released a line of special-edition bags with its first partner, canvas bag manufacturer ...

Each travel, duffle, shopping and computer bag that hits the stores adds to the ongoing use of synthetic fibers, environmental pollution and waste. The reality is that it doesn’t have to be that way.

HALIFAX — In an airy expanse on the second floor of an outbuilding on a hill overlooking the Green River Valley in Halifax, Eric Truran is doing what he's done maybe 70,000 times or more since 1985 — ...