Description
Over one hundred million tons of fabric is produced for the textile industry ever year. The scale of that production is hard to comprehend, but for comparison, the Empire States Building weighs about 365,000 tons, so we make about 274 empire states buildings worth of textiles each and every year.
Circ is here to answer the question: what are we going to do with all the clothes made from that mountain of textiles once we're finished with them? The traditional alternatives have been to trash clothes we no long use, accounting for 17 million tons of textiles added to landfills in the US alone. Recycling has long been a better alternative, but the process of untangling fibers so they can be reused was prohibitively expensive and technically bedeviling. Enter stage left, Circ.
Without getting into the details (which Peter does with elegance in our conversation) Circ has created a means of taking clothes made from multiple types of fibers and breaking them down into component parts so those fibers can be reused again. They've already attracted serious interest from investors and international brands who see the clear need for their technology, both from an environmental and business perspective.
Join us as we talk with Peter Majeranowski, CEO and founder of Circ, about the problem they're tackling, the potential impact the solution could have on the fashion industry and the environment writ large, as well as his journey from Navy officer entrepreneur.
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