It takes between 25 and 40 gallons of water to dye 2.2 pounds of fabric.
With the help of my amazing team I designed the world’s first waterless dyed marathon singlet.
Kenyan marathon world champion Abel Kirui debuted the singlet at the London 2012 Olympics.
In 2012, Nike announced a strategic partnership with DyeCoo, a Netherlands based company that has developed and built the first commercially available waterless textile drying machines. By using recycled carbon dioxide, DyeCoo’s technology eliminates the use of water in the textile dyeing process. Utilizing CO2, an inert and non-toxic gas that is available as waste from other industries, waterless dyeing is an innovative process that also produces 50-60% less carbon emission than conventional dyeing methods.
Won Grand Winner for Sustainability in Popular Science’s Top 100 Innovations of 2012.
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