This movie shows a project by Jalila Essaïdi. The Eindhoven designer has turned manure into haute couture, with a range of garments made from a poo-based bio-fabric.
The clothing collection has been made using a textile that’s indistinguishable from conventional fabric, although it’s been manufactured using recycled cow dung.
The manure serves a double purpose – as a base for the Mestic material, and a source for the chemicals required to create it.
The material is first separated, with the dry manure processed to extract the pure cellulose – a result of the grass the cows eat.
Acids from the wet manure are extracted and used to create cellulose acetate, which is a natural liquid plastic. Fibres can be created using this, and turned into textiles or bio-plastics, and it can also be freeze-dried to create an aerogel.
“This is not the first time that scientists are looking for ways to solve the manure problem,” said Essaïdi. “But it is the first time that manure is being considered as a valuable resource,” she added.
The designer created Mestic as a way of addressing the global manure surplus, which is responsible for excessive amounts of harmful phosphate and nitrogen.
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