Dyeing for change: Why microbes could clean up fashion's toxic mess
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Earthshot Prize finalist Colorifix is reimagining the future of fashion, by inventing non-snythetic dye made from microbes in a lab.
    • EvilBit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4 months

      I hate the “chemicals bad” nonsense. It’s ignorant fearmongering. Meanwhile I eat chemicals for breakfast.

      • magnetosphere@fedia.io
        4 months

        “It’s 100% natural!” “So is arsenic.” …

        When I see “without chemicals” I just assume it’s shorthand for “without known harmful chemicals, probably” until I carefully read the label and learn more

        • lauha@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4 months

          Asbestos is literally 100% natural. A pure natural product.

        • EvilBit@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4 months

          I take it as shorthand for “without known harmful chemicals, probably, also, we think you’re an idiot”.

        • iopq@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4 months

          There are artificial colors that are not known to be harmful, so would that also mean they are without chemicals?

        • EvilBit@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4 months

          I knew someone who ate a chemical once and they died so it must be true.

      • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zipEnglish
        4 months

        Nonetheless, be careful especially with cosmetica. They don’t use lead and arsen anymore only because it is forbidden now. Carcinogen and hormonal active substances are not rare there.

      • Munkisquisher@lemmy.nzEnglish
        4 months

        Geez, you’ve eaten so many chemicals, that’s all you are made up of now

      • mushroommunk@lemmy.todayEnglish
        4 months

        Oooo, quercetin, so spooky like myricetin and kaempferol. I can’t even go outside for fear of the chemical cyanidin. Wait. Those are just banana flavour compounds. My bad.

      • Notyou@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        4 months

        I started working at a job that had a “Do Not Dump Chemicals Down Sink” sign. I asked it that included H2O, because I actually poured water down it. They didn’t like my joke.

  • osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org
    4 months

    I’m excited to see the first color to cause a mass health event because the color wasn’t fully sterilized because of cost cutting. I’m sure people will be really normal about it.

    Bets on red btw.

  • SW42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4 months

    I hope they’re not using dihydrogen monoxide for this. Literally anyone that consumes it dies.

  • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4 months

    I really like the specification of petrochemicals. Thats make a significant difference. That is awesome, the more places we can cut those industries out the better.

  • phutatorius@lemmy.zipEnglish
    4 months

    Whoever wrote that headline needs to find a new way of making a living.

    • kalkulat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4 months

      Going by ‘colour’, I’d guess that headline came from the UK. Writing them is a tricky, trippy task.

  • EndOfLine@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4 months

    I thought the pic was 3 cookies and was all excited. Then I read the headline. I probably should not be left unsupervised in a lab.