Current polyester and plastic recycling methods mean it can typically only be recycled once due to material breaking down during the recycling process.
"A major challenge in this field is that polyester is usually blended with other fibers like cotton, rayon, and nylon," explains David Schiraldi, Professor of Organic Chemistry and Macromolecular Science at Case Western University,"to recycle the polyester into new textiles, a difficult and complete separation is required.
To date Ambercycle has diverted 3.5 million pounds of end-of-life textile waste away from landfill:"Over the past 8 years," says Sethi,"we’ve developed the technology and proved that the product works in capsule collections. The next step, crucial for the entire industry, is to adopt these solutions at scale. Manufacturing at that scale is a very different challenge than manufacturing with the lab bench scale we started with.
“One formative experience was when a piece of equipment was being offloaded from the truck, the pallet ripped, and this beautiful reactor we needed for our process just fell on the ground and shattered everywhere,” adds Ahmed.
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