On Tuesday, Lululemon announced it's selling shirts made with nylon sourced by way of biomanufacturing processes from biotech company Geno.
Many of the synthetic products used in modern, everyday life, including nylon, are made from the leftovers at an oil refinery after a product is made.The Lululemon shirt made in partnership with Geno, a biotechnology company, is made by in part nylon made from plant based sources."Most of the plastics are made up of carbon and some small other elements," Reddy told CNBC in a phone conversation on Friday.
"Because nylon, like it or not, has a lot of good value," Reddy told CNBC. "There's lots of reasons why plastics are bad to the environment, but at the end of the day, plastics, nylons are part of our everyday life."nylon itself was invented in the 1930sAn effective replacement product has to work well and be cost-effective, too. "Look at those first-generation replacement straws — they didn't work, and everybody's annoyed," Reddy told CNBC.
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