Today’s fashion industry is faced with a great challenge – textile waste. Fast fashion and accelerated trend cycles have led to mounting clothing waste and few solutions to solve it at scale. Industry innovators like the Finnish clothing brand Pure Waste are eager to help solve this problem by offering clothing made from recycled fibers. A new type of recycling based on chemistry could help make this happen.
While carbon capture and storage has been around for several decades, the utilization of captured carbon is a relatively new and growing field. As Kemira ventures into new territory with innovations for monomers made with renewable carbon, we took the opportunity to dig into carbon capture and utilization in more detail with Michael Carus, a leader from the Nova Institute and Renewable Carbon Initiative.
Christian Lenges is an innovation expert at International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF), one of Kemira’s collaboration partners in the quest to develop fully biobased polymers that outperform traditional fossil-based derived products. We caught up with Christian to learn more about the challenges and opportunities of making polymers from sugar instead of fossil-based raw materials.
In the first episode of our podcast series, Chemistry with a purpose, we spoke to Matthias Staub, Development Director of Water at Veolia, a leader in municipal wastewater treatment. The company is currently testing Kemira's new Vivimag® phosphorus recovery technology, which has promising implications for the circular economy.
