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   pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2024 21:59:36 JST pettter

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   • Soh Kam Yung

   @sohkamyung Consistent and wasteful overproduction can't be handled by finding.better ways to deal with the waste, it has to be dealt with on the production side of things. Unfortunately, capitalism can only go faster and produce more of lower quality, so we need to enact solutions that are outside of capitalist thinking. This is technosolutionism applied to a social problem.

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     Soh Kam Yung (sohkamyung@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2024 21:59:37 JST Soh Kam Yung

     "Researchers have developed a chemical-processing technique that can break down fabrics into reusable molecules, even when they contain a mixture of materials.

     The process, outlined in a Science Advances paper on 3 July, shows that chemical recycling can give old textiles a new lease of life. If scaled up, it could help to tackle the growing mountain of waste generated by the fashion industry"

     https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02210-1

     #Clothes #Fabrics #Recycling #Chemistry #Research