Revolutionising Color Creation: Pioneering an End-to-End Manufacturing Process for Food Waste derived Natural Dyes

彻底改变色彩创造：开创食物垃圾衍生天然染料的端到端制造工艺

• 批准号: 10099524
• 金额: $ 44.6万
• 依托单位: SAGES LONDON LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10099524
• 关键词: Revolutionising; Color; Creation; Pioneering; End

The textiles industry is the second most polluting in the world. Synthetic dye pollution is the silent culprit accounting for 80% of the industry's total emissions \[Lellis-2019\].The global market for textile-dyes is £9.1billion (2022) with 98.5% of dyes being synthetic. These dyes are used in everything including clothing, accessories, furniture and bedding. They are derived from either coal-tar or petroleum-based intermediates \[Modor, 2023\] are inherently unsustainable, and wreak havoc on the environment and human health.Chemical dye effluent is dumped into waterstreams causing contamination, killing aquatic biota, damaging soil, and contaminating the food chain/drinking supply. Workers and local populations experience effects such as bladder-cancer, infertility, nervous-system disorders and rashes amongst many other side effects \[Khan,Malik,2018\]. Recent research shows wearers can experience skin-burns, asthma, auto-immune diseases and cumulative-toxicity with carcinogenic, mutagenic and reprotoxic effects\[Wicker,2023\].The industry however continues to rely on synthetic-dyes. This is attributable to the fact that alternatives have not been able to achieve the levels of **brightness**, **longevity** and **consistency** as synthetic-dyes.Current alternatives are existing traditional natural dyes which are **inconsistent** and **expensive** due to their use of farmland, algae dyes, which **lack UV resistance** and have a **limited colour palette**, and microbial dyes, which are **complicated to integrate** and **pale in colour**.These alternatives have not been able to satisfy industry needs and there is a desperate requirement for natural, biodegradable, and commercially-viable dyes.**SAGES DYES**SAGES create **natural, biodegradable, non-polluting** and **non-toxic** dyes **derived from food-waste**. We utilise UK food-waste streams such as onions skins, avocado pits, and red cabbages to extract vibrant dyes which can be used to colour textiles.This project will see SAGES face its largest hurdle in combining lab-tested extraction/filtration methods into an end-to-end process, scaling from 100g/day lab-scale batches to commercial-scale quantities of 5kg/day.

纺织业行业是世界上第二大污染的行业。合成染料污染是该行业总排放量占80％的无声罪魁祸首\ [Lellis-2019 \]。全球纺织-DYES市场是91亿英镑（2022），其中98.5％的染料是合成的。这些染料用于所有物品，包括衣物，配件，家具和床上用品。它们源自煤 - 塔尔或石油的中间体\ [Modor，2023 \]本质上是不可持续的，对环境和人类健康造成了严重破坏。化学染料效应被倾倒到水边造成污染，造成污染，造成水生物生物，杀死水生物生物，损坏的土壤和污染供应。工人和当地人群经历了许多其他副作用的影响，例如膀胱癌，不孕症，神经系统疾病和皮疹等\ [Khan，Malik，2018 \]。最近的研究表明，佩戴者可以通过致癌，诱变和耐毒性作用\ \ [Wicker，2023 \]来体验皮肤燃烧，哮喘，自身免疫性疾病以及累积毒性。这归因于以下事实：替代方案无法达到**亮度**，** longevity **和**一致性**的水平，作为合成型味。染料，整合**和**苍白**是复杂的。 We use UK food-waste streams such as onions skins, avocado pits, and red cabbages to extract vibrant dyes which can be used to colour textiles.This project will see SAGES face its largest hurdle in combining lab-tested extraction/filtration methods into an end-to-end process, scaling from 100g/day lab-scale batches to commercial-scale quantities of 5kg/day.