00:03you've probably heard the phrase fast fashion before describing the tendency of many to buy
00:07cheap clothing which is quickly thrown away the habit has led to a polyester problem but this
00:12UK firm is hoping to help curb at least some of that this is Andy Pickford professor at the
00:17University of Portsmouth according to him single-use plastics like those in plastic bottles
00:22have a relatively good recyclability rate clothing on the other hand not so much the recycling rates
00:28for textiles when they reach their end of life is very very poor typically less than 10% so we
00:34have
00:34a major challenge here that we're trying to tackle and major is a bit of an understatement as 60%
00:39of
00:40all clothing manufactured is polyester made from fossil fuels so now their team is on the hunt for
00:45an enzyme that can literally eat polyester breaking it down into its raw building blocks and so far
00:50they've actually had some luck identifying over 70 such enzymes now they're looking for the most
00:55efficient one so we're looking obviously we're looking for the end one it's the fastest it's
00:59going to break this down as quickly as possible and we're looking for enzymes that sort of are
01:04stable at the temperatures that we want to react work at in industry which is usually around sort
01:09of 70 degrees according to earth org over 100 million tons of clothing ends up in landfills every year
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01:21so we're looking for a lot of people to do so we're looking for a lot of people to do
01:21so we're looking for a lot of people to do so we're looking for a lot of people to do
01:21so
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