Dyeing
No one wants a world without colour, but textile dyeing uses 8,000 chemicals and is the second-largest polluter of water in the world. Colorifix wants – as its name suggests – to fix that. The company is led by Cambridge University scientists who have figured out how to insert pigment-forming genetic information into bacteria, which then literally grow colourful organic dyes. The result is a chemical-free dyeing process that also uses up to 40% less energy and up to 90% less water (the fashion industry uses enough water for dyeing to fill 2 million Olympic-sized swimming pools each year).
— Wayne Visser
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