Will your clothes of tomorrow be made of Agro-food residues?

Over the past decades, a new type of raw material for textile and fashion has seen the light of day: agricultural and food processing residues-based fibres and materials (AFPR). Straddling the food and fashion industry, these innovations appear to be an excellent solution for sustainable development achievement as they support the transition to a more circular system, where waste is valued as an input, while pressures on natural resources are reduced. As little research has been done on this topic, this paper aims to fill in the gaps by laying out the existing market and highlighting the potential that these fibres offer