Connecticut-based company partners with laboratories to explore how enzymes can break down plastic and textile scrap to make new resins. Protein Evolution says its technique can create rPET resin “is ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Protein Evolution, Inc. (PEI) launched out of stealth, unveiling groundbreaking technology that transforms textile and mixed-plastic waste into an infinitely ...

The company has raised $20 million in initial funding and says its process is the first of its kind that is built to scale. Image courtesy of Protein Evolution Inc. A company focused on the chemical ...

A scientist from Protein Evolution works in the company's New Haven, Connecticut, facility. In nature, mutations are introducted randomly into organisms. The strongest ones survive. Protein Evolution ...

The organization installed 4,500 pounds of discarded clothing outside the California state capitol building in Sacramento on Thursday.

Buttons, zippers and threads literally hold garments together, but they also disrupt preprocessing that needs to happen at ...

Chemical sorting can be utilized to selectively collect polyester from waste plastics and textiles. In the product stream, clean polyesters are obtained because the process eliminates colorants and ...

Data shortfalls threaten EU textile recycling targets as policymakers and industry warn of delayed progress on circular ...