Before finish 2022, the British designer Stella McCartney wanted to demonstrate once again its firm commitment to sustainable fashion production. This time, as they have published skilled media fashion as 'Fashion United', 'Fashion Network' and 'Vogue' explained the last news of the signature Stella McCarney: the formalisation of the agreement with 'Protein Evolution'.
'Protein Evolution' Is a startup American that centres his activity in the innovation in matter of processes of biological recycling. Some of his projects stood out is a design of able enzymes to decompose undone plastic and textile, for later, manufacture and create new textile products and plastics.
The agreement did official in the last days of 2022, but went in force in 2023, by what already are working together. The project consists in that 'Protein Evolution' will process all the rests and textile surplus that contain polyester and nylon of the collections of Stella McCartney and will transform them and will turn into new textile fibers. Afterwards, both, will study that alternative are the most adapted to go back to reintroduce them in the market, already was in shape of new pieces of clothes, footwear or that it was usable for another category of product. The difficulties to recycle mixed fibers has meant some of the main problems of the fashionable companies that want to be more sustainable.
In a communiqué made by 'Protein Evolution', the cofounder and technological director of the company Scott Stankey, has declared that it treats of a collaboration and a synergy that expect that it was fruitful for both parts: "Our process of biological recycling patented saves the potential to be able to enable the efforts in circularized along all the textile industry. When associating us with Stella McCartney, can begin to tester ours platform in some real surroundings and collectively learn how to integrate without problems the technology of PEI in the current processes of manufacture. This collaboration will show for the first time how the complex types of cloths, like the mixes of nylon and polyester, can reutilize completely to manufacture new materials of plastic base of a profitable way and with low consumptions of energy."
Stella McCartney, by his part, has not wanted to overlook this occasion to show his unrest with regard to the increase of marks of 'fast-fashion' and the impact that this generates: "The horrible quantity of pieces of 'fast fashion' that afterwards finishes in the dumps is really shocking , so much by the resources used as by the big quantity of waste." The British designer has taken advantage of also to highlight the importance of the circularity in the fashionable world and the positive influence that this can have in the future next. We have to act today to protect our planet for the morning, and the solutions in circularity and regenerative offer an optimistic look for the future of the fashion. With our association with Protein Evolution, with which expect to be pioneering in obtaining a new type of polyester obtained of old material. Our strategy is to establish climatic aims and give significant steps to a more sustainable future. This is what really matters", has signalled the British designer doing gala of his firm responsibility with the sustainable fashion.