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Metrics & More Article Recommendations C lothing might not come to mind when people think of plastic pollution. But polyester, derived from crude oil, makes up half the total fiber used in the global manufacture of textiles for apparel, upholstery, and other products, according to an analysis by IHS Markit. Less than 1% of garments get recycled into new clothing, and around 38 million metric tons of polyester from the fashion industry ends up in landfills each year, according to Shay Sethi, CEO of the start-up company Ambercycle.Adding value to textile trash is the only way to keep the world from drowning in it, he says. He and his former college roommate, Moby Ahmed, developed a way to recover the natural and synthetic polymers in textiles while they were students at the University of California, Davis. They cofounded Ambercycle in 2015 to scale up the process and show that it could be done cost effectively. In 2016, they won the H&M Foundation's annual Global Change Award, which helped fund technology development. The company launched a product line of recycled garments with Los Angeles-based street-wear brand Come Back as a Flower in December.Sethi says the toughest task is to m

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Author

Prachi Patel

Publisher

American Chemical Society (ACS)

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (Physical Sciences)