Researchers in Australia are Turning Textile Waste into New Clothes and Joint Replacement Parts
Updated: Apr 27, 2020
The world has fashion problem. The U.S. alone sends about 21 billion pounds of textile waste to landfills every year, with comparable – and growing – numbers being tied to other similarly-situated nations. But a new way of recycling could serve to repurpose some of the world’s unwanted textiles from polluting the environment to creating everything from new clothing to synthetic joints for replacement surgeries.
