Kleiderly: A Second Life for Fashion

<p><b>Alina Bassi is founder of the Berlin-based startup Kleiderly. Kleiderly transforms fashion waste into a kind of plastic that can be used to manufacture different products. The first one to hit the markets in late September are sunglasses. Alina is a chemical engineer and developed the technology herself.<br/>In this episode we talk about:</b></p><ul><li><b>Fashion waste: why 87% of the clothes we ever wear ends up in landfills.</b></li><li><b>The process of turning textile into plastic </b></li><li><b>The business model behind Kleiderly and</b></li><li><b>Circularity: how to make sure that Kleiderly is not producing even more waste with its recycled products</b></li></ul><p>---<br/><b> Join me in the next Zero Waste Berlin Festival, that will take place from the 17th to the 19th of  September in Berlin. It&apos;s your chance to connect with like-minded people and co-create a sustainable future. Tickets on </b><a href='https://zerowasteberlinfestival.com/'><b>https://zerowasteberlinfestival.com/</b></a><b>.</b></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p>