ORTA, a sustainable denim manufacturer headquartered in Turkey, awarded its prize for Bio-Inspired Textile Processes to a team of Australian students from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, RMIT University. The students developed Enzer, a water filtration and treatment system that can be retrofitted to washing machines to tackle the issue of microplastics released in the washing cycle by polyester, nylon, acrylic and other synthetic fibers.
ORTA awards bio-inspired prize
Industry News | September 26, 2019 | By: ATA
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