92 million tons of textiles are discarded globally each year. That’s a huge problem. But UMD Associate Professor Abbie Clarke-Sather, PhD, and her team have created a new way to make textiles more recyclable.
Clarke-Sather, an associate professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD), has worked in Civil and Environmental Engineering as well as Fashion and Apparel Studies. It’s that fusion that first sparked the idea to address sustainability issues in the fashion industry.
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