{"id":66251,"date":"2019-09-05T07:32:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T05:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=66251"},"modified":"2019-09-02T15:33:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T13:33:07","slug":"this-t-shirt-is-made-from-algae-and-100-biodegradable-in-12-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/this-t-shirt-is-made-from-algae-and-100-biodegradable-in-12-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"This T-Shirt Is Made From Algae And 100% Biodegradable In 12 Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twin brothers, Nick and Steve Tidball, started their future-forward clothing tech company, Vollebak in 2015. They wanted to create clothes that were both functional, long-lasting, rugged and left a small footprint on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>With only a handful of seed rounds with angel investors, the brothers &#8211; both athletes and designers &#8211; created a Graphene jacket and &#8216;100 Year Pants&#8217; that could withstand fire, nature, water for 100 years. Their solar charged jacket won numerous awards including Time&#8217;s Best Invention of 2018, Fast Company&#8217;s Innovation by Design awards and Wired&#8217;s Gear of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>In August 2019, Vollebak took environmental clothing to a new level with the creation of a plant and algae t-shirt made entirely algae grown in bioreactors, pulped eucalyptus and beech from sustainably managed forests.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pSb1MtbYy0Y&#038;feature=youtu.be<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Steve Tidball, CEO and co-founder of Vollebak said they wanted to make a piece of clothing entirely out of natural materials so that once it reached the end of its lifespan, it would simply return to nature and leave no trace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twin brothers, Nick and Steve Tidball, started their future-forward clothing tech company, Vollebak in 2015. They wanted to create clothes that were both functional, long-lasting, rugged and left a small footprint on the planet. With only a handful of seed rounds with angel investors, the brothers &#8211; both athletes and designers &#8211; created a Graphene [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[7190,13445,12468],"supplier":[16095,16094],"class_list":["post-66251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-algae","tag-clothing","tag-textiles","supplier-fast-company","supplier-vollebak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66251"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=66251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}