Michael Rivera, an assistant professor with The ATLAS Institute at the University of Colorado Boulder, talks about dissolvable fibers made from gelatin.
ADRIAN FLORIDO, HOST:
Are you someone who just can’t resist a $4 shirt, even though you know you might only wear it once or twice? In recent years, the fast fashion industry has come under a lot of criticism as landfills pile up with cheap discarded clothing.
MICHAEL RIVERA: About 8% of the waste that we put into landfills right now is from textile waste. And so there’s a significant amount of waste that we’re generating from textiles, and we