Dyeing for change: Why microbes could clean up fashion's toxic mess
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Earthshot Prize finalist Colorifix is reimagining the future of fashion, by inventing non-snythetic dye made from microbes in a lab.

The dye industry, heavy on the use of petrochemicals, is one of the world’s biggest polluters. Now dyes can be made by microorganisms that -grow- colors.

    • EvilBitEnglish
      15·
      1 hour ago

      I hate the “chemicals bad” nonsense. It’s ignorant fearmongering. Meanwhile I eat chemicals for breakfast.

      • magnetosphere@fedia.io
        5·
        49 minutes ago

        “It’s 100% natural!” “So is arsenic.” …

        When I see “without chemicals” I just assume it’s shorthand for “without known harmful chemicals, probably” until I carefully read the label and learn more

        • EvilBitEnglish
          6·
          1 hour ago

          I knew someone who ate a chemical once and they died so it must be true.

      • mushroommunk@lemmy.todayEnglish
        3·
        1 hour ago

        Oooo, quercetin, so spooky like myricetin and kaempferol. I can’t even go outside for fear of the chemical cyanidin. Wait. Those are just banana flavour compounds. My bad.

  • osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org
    2·
    38 minutes ago

    I’m excited to see the first color to cause a mass health event because the color wasn’t fully sterilized because of cost cutting. I’m sure people will be really normal about it.

    Bets on red btw.