LA-based start-up is working on a new method to recycle polyester, preventing clothing containing the material from hitting landfills.
Ambercycle and its Boyle Heights laboratory, chemists, and engineers have figured out a way to pull polyester, notably a hard-to-reuse material, from used clothing and package it for re-use.
“It seems so archaic to dump material on the earth, or just try and burn it and see what happens,” says Ambercycle Co-founder Shay Sethi. “We’ve developed all these crazy technologies to make stuff. Why do we not apply those to the other end of the lifecycle?”
