Ocean swimming... and seaweed textiles

21/05/2022 27 min Episodio 44
Ocean swimming... and seaweed textiles

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Episode Synopsis

Professor Peter Ralph is Executive Director of the Climate Change Cluster in the Faculty of Science at UTS, and is partnering with Australian surf brand Piping Hot to develop textiles made from seaweed for surfwear. Nature-derived alternatives for the fashion industry have the potential to revolutionise products and vastly reduce their impact on the oceans.
Apologies for a little bit of building noise in the background!
Songs in this episode - all licensed under a Creative Commons License:
Seaweed - Offkey Lifestyle
Sea-weed - Martin Williamson
Sapphire - Tobu

Image from UTS