The Future of Textile Recycling

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refiberate specifically has developed our own AI and sensor based system to automatically detect the material of text always. That's the big reason why recycling can't happen today is because mechanical and chemical recyclers need to know what they're dealing with. And so we really work on that proper detection and then diversion working with these guys to make sure that, hey, instead of less than 1%, you get to 70%. This is something that came out of actually all of our master's research.

Jason starts the show by discussing First Citizens acquiring SVB’s assets (2:03) before diving into a Reddit post detailing how generative AI changed a 3D artist’s job overnight (9:09). Jason wraps by interviewing Sarika Bajaj, the CEO, and Co-founder of Refiberd, as she dives into the reality of the recycling process, how they are using spectroscopy to recycle textiles, and more (20:28)!

(0:00) Jason kicks off the show

(2:03) A breakdown of First Citizens’ purchase of SVB

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(9:09) Reddit Post: A radical change for 3D artists

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(20:28) Sarika Bajaj, CEO of Refiberd joins Jason

(21:00) What happens to our textiles?

(25:20) Refiberd’s solution

(30:31) Solving for inefficiencies in the recycling process

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(39:33) The state of recycling today

(49:23) Raising capital in today’s market