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Skincare Made From Textile Wastewater

Aizome and Serviceplan design skincare made from textile wastewater. Workbyworks’ identity and packaging for the product draws attention to Aizome’s dyeing process and use of natural materials. Japanese-German textile start-up Aizome has collaborated with creative agency Serviceplan Innovation to design...
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Turkish Students Offer Solution To Bursa’s Textile Wastewater Issue

Supported by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK), students from Bursa Technical University (BTU) introduced a project that offers a natural solution to Bursa’s textile wastewater problem with biodegradable materials obtained from algae and sugar beet pulp....
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A Shellfish Inspired Solution To Clean Up Textile Wastewater

Every year, the textile industry uses 1.3 trillion gallons of water to dye garments – enough to fill 2 million Olympic-sized swimming pools. Most of this water, loaded with harmful chemicals and dyes, flows untreated into rivers and streams. That’s...
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EU Funds Research On Sustainable Bio-Based Colorants and Dyeing

University of Helsinki’s Faculty of Educational Sciences has received a significant EU consortium grant under the Horizon Europe framework programme for Colour4CRAFTS, a multidisciplinary project that combines the cultural tradition of dyes and textile dyeing with the development of novel...