Research Progress
Building the academic pathway for R&D that explores textile waste → lumber-like building material over time.
2025-2026 UW - Eau Claire Research Progress
UW–Eau Claire Materials Science: Green chemistry research on identifying and reducing common textile contaminants to support safer reuse pathways.
Key focus areas:
- Green chemistry approach using supercritical CO₂ as a more sustainable solvent
- Methods for removing contaminants from fabrics
- Characterization techniques to study captured contaminants (ex. FTIR, UV-Vis, gravimetric analysis)
UW–Eau Claire Business Management: Research on how textile sustainability systems get adopted through policy, administration, and repeatable implementation models.
Key focus areas:
- Adoption drivers: coercive (policy/regulation), normative (professional norms), mimetic (best-practice imitation)
- Administrative and governance implications (training, champions, workflow + technology integration)
- Policy pathways like EPRs and incentives that shift systems toward sustainability
- The need for reproducible case studies to help organizations implement with confidence
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