Environmental Impact of Natural and Synthetic Dyes: Imagine a world where everything we wear or surround ourselves with is grey or white. Colour has been essential to the history of civilization, signaling prestige, hierarchy, and leadership from the Stone Age onwards. But we pay a heavy price for color in cosmetics, paper, food, and pharmaceuticals. And particularly in textiles- something we forget or choose to ignore when browsing at stores for the latest color stories.