NEW HAVEN – US start-up Protein Evolution (PEI) and its brand partner, Stella McCartney have unveiled their first garment made from transforming industrial plastic waste into ‘good-as-new’ fibres.
The garment, on show at this week’s COP28 climate change conference, has been created using PEI’s proprietary Biopure technology, which uses AI-designed enzymes to biologically break down synthetic textile and plastic waste.
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