Bacterial dye - the pigment of the future

How can the textile industry become more climate friendly and lessen the negative impact of textile dying on the environment?

On the exhibition '70 % Less CO2' you can explore the project 'Bacterial dye - the pigment of the future'.

The textile industry faces major challenges in becoming more climate-friendly due to a large water consumption and CO2 consumption and the use of toxic chemicals.

This project aims to envision how the future could look if we had the opportunity to use bacteria to produce colour and dye textile as an alternative to using fossil-oil to produce synthetic dyes . 

It examines how bacterial dye can be used for creating a textile for an industrial textile company, as a climate-friendly alternative to the synthetic dyes normally used for dyeing. 

Compared to synthetic pigments the production method of bacterial pigments and the following process of textile dyeing is gentle on the environment, saves water and produces less CO2.