CLOTHING By using Colorifix’s engineered microbes instead, PANGAIA can replicate nature’s color palette with significantly cleaner inputs—and outputs. With Colorifix they only need 1 wash and 3 hours. Instead the process uses zero harmful chemicals, less energy wasted and less water, too. Not only is Colorifix revolutionizing the dyeing industry, it’s solution is scalable too. Did you know? The annual clothing volume for the UK alone requires over 20 billion liters of water to dye. If you were standing on Tower Bridge looking down at the River Thames, you would have to wait 3.9 days for this amount of water to pass. Powered by Colorifix Colorifix is a biotechnology company that’s revolutionizing the dyeing process to help reduce the textile industry’s environmental impact. Their ongoing mission? To engineer natural solutions to solve current problems our planet faces. A trailblazer for innovation, Colorifix has pioneered the first biological process to produce, deposit, and fix pigments onto textiles. This method uses at least 68% less water than conventional dyeing practices, and up to 90% for synthetic fibres. PANGAIA x AIR INK AIR INK® Treatments Water-based black ink made from air pollution, printed on their latest capsule. Discover the PANGAIA x AIR-INK® capsule. Problem-solving science you can wear. Industry Problem Right now, the apparel industry has a large carbon footprint that contributes to an extremely high amount of air pollution worldwide. They want to do their part to move the industry forward with new innovative technologies and responsible solutions—that’s where AIR-INK® comes in. PANGAIA Solution They are revolutionizing how they use ink—one product at a time. This technology turns air pol-
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lution particles into water-based black ink, used to print our logo and text blocks in their latest capsule. The more we support new carbon capture and recycling technologies like AIR-INK®, the more we support our planet. What is AIR-INK®? AIR-INK® is a carbon-capture technology that captures air pollution particles and diverts harmful substances from the air we breathe. The particles are turned into different grades of inks, dispersions and coatings. For this capsule the captured air particles were turned into safe, water-based inks.
