Inside IALR

Circular Fashion and Textile Recycling

The average piece of clothing in the U.S. is now worn just seven times, and worldwide, less than 1% of textile waste gets recycled back into textiles.

This special episode of "Inside IALR" features an interview with Iulian Bobe, Co-Founder and Advisor for Circ - a circular fashion company that IALR has supported throughout its lifecycle with a variety of analytical testing services and lab space. Bobe shares the history of Circ, how it started as a technology company to extract sugars and oils from tobacco to produce biofuels, and how it developed a new method to reduce poly-cotton clothing waste.

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