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The world has a textile waste problem. With around 92m t/y of textile waste produced globally, recycling infrastructure and innovation is rapidly evolving to address the many requirements needed to make fabric both recyclable and reusable.
to the first episode of the The Chemical Engineer Podcast, brought to you by the Institution of Chemical Engineers, Aniqah Majid speaks to Aida Rafat, the CEO and co-founder of startup DyeRecycle, to help untangle this complex sector.
"Think about your clothes and how different they are," Rafat says. "They're coloured and they're blended with other fibres, they're finished with so many different chemistries, making the polyester applied in those clothes super challenging to recycle because of the complexity of how it got to that heterogeneous form."
DyeRecycle is one of many disruptors looking to make fabrics simpler and greater homogenous so that they can be recycled greater efficiently. The company has developed a solvent-based products methodology that can remove dye from textiles, namely polyester, and put them back into the supply chain.
Having developed and grown DyeRecycle over greater than three years, Rafat discusses the importance of technologies like this to the future of textiles, and her experience leading the startup's scaleup journey.
Listen to the full episode here:
If you would like to learn greater about Aida Rafat and DyeRecycle's technologies, also check out my profile of the co-founder in Issue 1023 of the magazine.
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