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“From, and it's a continuous process too, so we're now doing it in a continuous way, but the, from end to end, it's about 15 minutes.”

“We did have some investment from individuals high net worth individuals, and we had millions of dollars of grants from the Virginia Tobacco Commission, for example.”

“Yeah, well, in the text, the parent of Zara just put out their targets where they want to have 40% of their clothing made from recycled sources, an additional 25% from next generation materials, which we would fall in both categories.”

“The bulk of the funds we've recently raised are going towards the engineering and planning for our first [1374] Peter Majeranowski: Really large-scale integrated facility, and that would process about 65,000 tons per year.”

“We were their first technology investment, and they've been fantastic partners to work with.”

“In the last year alone, we've raised about fifty million.”

“One of our first cold calls was from Patagonia, and they have a take-back program where you can come in with a Patagonia garment that's used, it doesn't matter how old, it'll give you some value for it, and then they try to resell it. Or they'll even try to re…”

“Whenever you have a chemical engineering process, you always have a little bit of loss from just material handling and things like that, but the polyester can get repolymerized and unpolymerized, you know, back and forth, essentially infinitely.”

“It does, but we recycle over 90% of it back into the beginning of the process.”

“To make a shirt. It takes about another shirt worth of waste along that whole supply chain to produce it. And most of it is that that final step when you're cutting patterns. [1197] Guy Raz: Discarding, just discarding the textiles from what you're not using t…”

“It was a four-piece collection we released back in May during Design Week in Milan. It was the world's first collection made from polycotton waste.”