It ain't fashion, if it ain't sustainable

Russell Kennedy

Textile Waste / Colours

2 January 2024

With Australian state government funding support from Sustainability Victoria, Deakin University’s Institute for Frontier Materials (IFM) has developed a method to effectively recycle colour pigments from textile waste. The project builds on the concept which received the H&M Foundation Global Change Award in 2017.

And Now Colouring Polymers from Textile Waste

In a world-first, textile waste could soon be crushed and pummelled to develop pigments that could be used as colouring polymers.

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