Lauren Choi, an engineering student at Johns Hopkins University, saw an opportunity: she wanted to turn these problematic cups into fabric. In 2019, during her senior year, she led a team that built an extruder machine that could spin plastic waste into textile filaments. Choi reached out to Gaston College’s Textile Technology Center*, just outside Charlotte, N.C., for help.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/sep/16/the-new-norm-sustainable-textiles-lauren-choi