Sustainable Trichromatic Textile Dyeing

牛津生物色素是一家小型初创公司，对纺织染料感兴趣，并提出了一个简单的问题：我们如何才能把事情做得更好？纺织染料在使用的每个阶段都会产生问题。它们是以能源密集型和对环境不友好的方式生产的，它们是由石油和天然气等石化产品制成的，它们在使用时污染河流和海洋，在纺织品的使用寿命结束时，它们在环境中不易分解，造成更多的污染。我们想要改变这种模式。该项目旨在开发可持续、不褪色的纺织染料，这种染料可以混合搭配，通过染色获得任何颜色。通过使用植物基染料，我们使用并固定了大气中的碳，同时确保在服装供应链中最具环境破坏性的部分之一中不再使用石化产品。

Oxford Biopigments is a small start-up company with an interest in textile dyes and a simple question: how can we do things better?Textile dyes cause problems at every stage of their life. They are produced in an energy intensive and environmentally unfriendly manner, they are made from petrochemicals such as oil and natural gas, they pollute rivers and oceans when they are used and at the end of a textile's life they don't break down easily in the environment causing yet more pollution. We want to change this paradigm.This project aims to develop sustainable, colour-fast, textile dyes that can be mixed and matched to obtain any colour by dyeing. By using plant-based dyes we use and fix carbon from the atmosphere whilst ensuring a shift away from petrochemical use in one of the most environmentally damaging parts of the apparel supply chain.