Little black carbon-capture dress

LanzaTech has been engineering Clostridium autoethanogenum using directed evolution to select for strains with high CO and CO2 fixing efficiencies. These strains have been used by retailer Migros, based in Zurich, as feedstock to make 30% of the polyester polyethylene terephthalate (PET) contained in plastic bottles in its food and drink packaging, and by Zurich-based sports brand On to create ethylene vinyl acetate foam for running shoes.

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Little black carbon-capture dress.
Nat Biotechnol 40, 7 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-021-01199-6

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