Bamboo

You've likely heard of bamboo fabrics and yarns by now, it's one of the hottest new eco-friendly trends. Bamboo grows extremely quickly, and in fact can pose a slight problem for home gardeners because it can go from beautiful to out of control pretty quickly. What's frustrating to a home gardener is useful to the textile business. The speed with which bamboo grows makes it an extremely sustainable fiber option. Bamboo makes an extremely soft fabric, and is often used in yarns for home-crafters as well. 

Hemp

Hemp fiber seems a little old school, because it's uses as a fiber have been touted for a long time now, mostly for it's association with aging hippies, but organic hemp is extremely sustainable. Hemp plants need little water and are hardy in many environments, and also grows densely. The fabric is comparable to linen, it's very breathable. Newer legislation has relaxed some of the extremely tight regulation around hemp cultivation, which means it's easier to find and get hold of, and with the relaxing of marijuana laws going on around the country, the stigma surrounding hemp is easing away.

Recovered Plastic Ocean Yarn

Sometimes, only plastic will do. It's hard to admit it, honestly. But the truth is, as a society, we're still trying to find ways to get away from this useful material due to the impact on the environment. But it's continued use in single-use hospital items and in netting for fishing as well as every day home life seems, at the moment, assured. Some companies, like BionicYarn.com, know that it's one of the best choices for many applications in the textile industry.

While there are plastics made from organic material, there are also concerns- plastics made from organic matter can cause allergic reactions in people who are allergic to organic matter, for example. However, several companies are now producing plastic yarn and other products from material that is recovered from marine and coastal trash. Not only does this type of fiber fill in a lot of textile needs that plant fibers cannot, but it reduces the amount of plastic floating in the ocean. The marine plastic is of huge current concern right now, given it's impact on marine life as a whole. It doesn't just impact the creatures who live in the ocean but people, who often live off of many products that exist in the oceanic ecosystem. So getting the plastic out of the ocean and reusing it in textiles is a really excellent way to still use plastic as well as get rid of something potentially harmful to life in our oceans.