This Designer Turns Algae into Plastic Apparel | NowThis

This designer and researcher found a way to transform algae into plastic to create apparel that actually helps combat the climate crisis.
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In US news and current events today, NYC-based researcher and interdisciplinary designer Charlotte McCurdy is making carbon-negative plastic, including plastic apparel, from algae. After many trials and errors she finally figured out how to turn marine algae into plastic for apparel. Once she collects the algae McCurdy returns to her laboratory in Brooklyn where she then adds plasticizers and uses a heated water bath and custom glass molds to create and form the plastic.

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