Sarika Bajaj, Textile Engineer
Sarika Bajaj is a textile engineer and graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University. She is using her talents in engineering and robotics to help tackle a really big problem in fashion: post-consumer garment textile recycling. Click here to contact Sarika. Textile Waste Facts: United States alone produces over 20 billion pounds of textile waste a year Approximately 73% of that textile waste travels to landfills or is incinerated China, where most of textile garments are exported, will likely ban imports of fiber grade materials by 2021 [Resource Recycling, 2019] Textile Recycling | PittSustainbility (accepted items here). For more Style412 Fashion Revolution content: Style412 Fashion Revolution webpage Instagram Facebook