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Each year, 80 billion new articles of clothing are produced around the world, but textiles has one of the poorest recycling rates of any reusable material today. One of  the biggest barriers to textile recycling is that we often don't know what the clothes are made of. To bridge this communication gap between manufactures and recyclers, Franck and her team have developed a digital thread that store all the content information needed to recycle each garment automatically. The thread looks and feels much likee a normal thread, but through RFID (radio frequency indentification) technology, it can store digital information and be scanned from a distance. Lesting over the garment's lifetime, the thread reduces waste throughout the on the supply chain and drives the transtition to a circular system in which materaials can be perpetually recycled.

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