Alina Bassi About Tackling Fashion Waste with Kleiderly
In this episode of “D Sustainability Issue” Podcast, Dessie welcomes Alina Bassi - a Chemical Engineer turned entrepreneur with a big passion for sustainability. With seven years experience designing and building factories that turn waste into energy and biofuels, she decided to start her own venture, Kleiderly, to tackle the issue of textile waste. She has developed an award winning, patent pending solution to transform textile waste into a plastic alternative, which can be used to produce anything from furniture to clothing hangers to sunglasses. Hence Kleiderly is solving two environmental problems with one solution. Alina is an advocate for women in STEM (Science technology, engineering, and mathematics), as well as one of the founding members of Tech In Colour, an initiative supporting female founders of colour to raise investment. More recently, she joined the Forbes 30 under 30 class of 2020, in the Manufacturing and Industry category. Besides fashions’s waste problem and it’s solution, we talk about leadership, as well as mindfulness practices that support Alina as a founder.