Making dresses in red and jeans in blue may be a dirty and resource-intensive process that incurs a heavy environmental cost. Thanks to the techno-savvy world of today! A lot of promising solutions are devised for a lower-impact way forward.

One of the serious impacts of fabric dyeing is the chemical pollution that it leaves behind. A growing number of biotech start-ups have found sustainable ways to re-engineer nature as a workaround to address these issues. Some among them include:

• Natural Dye
• Dope Solutions
• Low-Waste Dyeing

A snapshot of sustainable dyeing solutions:

Natural Dye:

Colorifix is employing a unique technique of DNA sequencing to duplicate colours that appear in nature, using genetically modifying bacteria to “grow” a dye within the chosen shade. Thus, the dyes can be easily grown on-site using renewable feedstocks. There are a lot of other ways through which one can source and replicate true colours from nature itself in this modern era.

Microbe is aimed toward turning organic waste into bio-based dyes and chemical solutions for the apparel and textiles industry. These natural dyes render a renewable source. They are also bio-degradable in nature with a low environmental impact.

Dope Solutions:

DyeRecycle has come up with another innovation where non-toxic chemistry is employed to strip textiles off their dyes and create reusable dye solvents. It’s just like the next natural step to take up, after recycling the fibre. Every garment dyed using such technology will mark a drastic reduction in the amount of chemical usage, water consumption and even carbon emissions.

Low-Waste Dyeing:

Alchemie’s digital spray technologies apply just the proper amount of dye substance to fabric to achieve the desired colour, which is very similar to the working of an inkjet printer.

Take Away:

Today, many of the leading knitted fabric manufacturers and yarn manufacturers in India have started turning their heads toward modern techniques which include a plethora ranging from genetic coding to digital printing. These enable them to tackle challenges like finance, scalability & resistance to change in walking the road towards sustainability.

Only evolution instead of revolution is the answer to scale better dyeing solutions and open up the way for eco-friendly fabrics!