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.
In this episode we talk about:

• Fashion waste: why 87% of the clothes we ever wear ends up in landfills.
• The process of turning textile into plastic 
• The business model behind Kleiderly and
• Circularity: how to make sure that Kleiderly is not producing even more waste with its recycled products

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