Textile manufacturing takes a heavy toll on the environment, from the pesticides used to grow cotton to the polluted water created by dye runoff. Fashion’s..
Textile manufacturing takes a heavy toll on the environment, from the pesticides used to grow cotton to the polluted water created by dye runoff. Fashion’s short retail cycle also results in millions of tons of waste every year.
Plug and Play hopes that its new accelerator, called Plug and Play-Fashion for Good , will solve some of these issues by connecting textile startups with large retailers. The program, a partnership between Plug and Play, Fashion for Good , a global initiative founded by C&A Foundation, and luxury conglomerate Kering , whose brands include Gucci and Alexander McQueen, launched last week in Amsterdam.
Its first batch includes companies that create organic dyes from microorganisms ( Pili-Bio ) and cleaners from carbon dioxide to reduce water waste ( Tersus ). The full list of startups is: Agraloop, Amadou, Dragon, Dropel , ICA Bremen , MySource , MycoTex , Pili-bio, RePack , Sundar , Tersus and Tipa
Like Plug and Play’s other programs, the textile accelerator’s goal is to build relationships between startups and corporations, says Plug and Play founder and CEO Saeed Amidi.
