Nearly 80% of ripped jeans and old dresses end up in landfills, incinerators, or the ocean. But what if all those jeans could be transformed into something else that’s useful — like new seatbelts for cars? That’s one of many opportunities that Matthew Parrott and Chris Luft have been working on for the last seven years. Parrott is the research and development director, and Luft is the scientific implementation officer of a textile impact company called Syre.
https://research.unc.edu/2024/07/25/weaving-recycling-knowledge-into-practice/