Cox Play With Purpose · Carter's Making & RemakingSafe to wear,
Safe to wear,
able to be remade.
A single computational co-design loop that closes the recycling loop on children's stretch apparel.
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01 · The reality
Carter's already collects worn baby clothes, then shreds them into insulation and pet bedding.
Two walls stop a onesie from ever becoming a onesie again.
02 · The two walls
Wall 1
Chemical safety
Carter's cannot prove the recovered fabric is chemically safe for infant skin.
Wall 2
Elastane
Carter's cannot break down the elastane woven into every stretch garment.
03 · The scale
0M
tonnes of textile waste per year
UNEP 2025
0%
of all clothing contains elastane
Fashion for Good
0%
of it makes a recycler reject the whole garment
Fashion for Good
0%
of garments are recycled fiber-to-fiber
McKinsey
04 · The thesis
Do not attack today's elastane. Co-design a new cleavable fiber and the matched enzyme that closes its loop.
in-silico · TRL 2-3
No one has co-designed a cleavable fiber and its matched enzyme, together, for textiles.