Biomimicry pilots target fashion’s waste

By Simon Glover
1 October 2026

Case studies in Ghana, the Netherlands and Germany examine how biological processes could tackle textiles that recycling cannot recover

SEATTLE — The Biomimicry Institute has published three case studies examining ways to break down difficult textile waste and turn it into new materials.

The studies mark a new stage in the institute’s Nature of Fashion: Design for Transformation initiative, launched in 2020. The projects test different responses to waste that conventional recycling struggles to process.

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