Overview
ALT TEX (Toronto, ON) is a biotech company creating biodegradable fabrics for the fashion industry.
What they’re doing: n order to create sustainable yarns and fabrics, you first need reliable biofibers. ALT TEX is engineering microbial strains to handle whatever impurities and varieties are in the food waste they use to upcycle into biodegradable fabrics, ensuring efficient and consistent production.
How will this be used in the real world? Every year, over four million tons of food waste goes into Canadian landfills. ALT TEX is helping to divert some of that by turning potato peels destined for the garbage into a valuable polyester alternative. Using biodegradable fabrics like this also shrinks the massive carbon footprint of the fashion industry.