HUMBLE-BEE

Plastic pollution in textiles with a novel bioplastic

Hum­ble Bee aims to com­bat the glob­al cri­sis of plas­tic pol­lu­tion by replac­ing exist­ing, unsus­tain­able, syn­thet­ic plas­tics with their bio­mimet­ic inspired coun­ter­part. In this endeav­our, Hum­ble Bee has iden­ti­fied a par­tic­u­lar species of soli­tary bee whose nest-lin­ing mate­r­i­al fea­tures a nov­el pro­tein, and are com­mis­sion­ing the draft­ing of a pro­vi­sion­al patent on the nov­el pro­tein-poly­mer. Fol­low­ing their research goals, the com­pa­ny hopes to take this rev­o­lu­tion­ary tech­nol­o­gy into dis­tri­b­u­tion – tar­get­ing the tex­tile mar­ket first and extend­ing into oth­er sec­tors soon after. Gherzi sup­ports young researchers and excit­ing projects world­wide in the fields of fibers, chem­istry, sur­face pro­duc­tion, tex­tile dig­i­tal­iza­tion and oth­er areas. Mod­ern-day chal­lenges faced by the tex­tile indus­try strength­en devel­op­ments in the areas of sus­tain­abil­i­ty, cir­cu­lar­i­ty and the inno­v­a­tive dig­i­tal busi­ness mod­els of the future.

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