Term
Definition
Second-Generation Bio-Fuel
This is a type of renewable fuel made from non-food sources like agricultural waste, wood, or used cooking oil. Unlike first-generation biofuels (such as growing vegetables directly for their oil to use as fuel). Second-Generation Bio-Fuel doesn’t use crops grown for food, which helps avoid competing with food supply.
Bio-mass waste
Waste from growing plants that would have ordinarily been thrown away (e.g. cotton pulp from the cotton plant, wheat straw from wheat plants, sugar cane bagasse from sugar cane plants)
Cellulose Renaissance
Cellulose refers to the primary structural component of plant-based materials and textiles, it is a polymer or chain of building blocks. The building blocks for cellulose are glucose, a simple sugar. It is at the heart of the innovation. By focusing on cellulose, the technology anchors itself in the biology of renewable materials, and in the potential to reimagine how we use plant-based waste.
Renaissance means rebirth in French, a revival of ideas, systems, and values.Through this bioprocess, the cellulose from the textile is reborn into new virgin like cellulose- hence Cellulose Renaissance.
It also reflects the project's goal of breathing new life into discarded materials and rethinking industrial processes in a way that is not only technologically advanced but also culturally and environmentally meaningful.
Together, Cellulose Renaissance represents a future-facing technology, aimed at regenerating both materials and behaviours to transform the fashion industry.
Viscose
Viscose is a semi-synthetic, regenerated cellulose fibre. It is made from natural wood or bamboo pulp but processed with chemicals to dissolve the cellulose which is spun into fibres that can then be made into threads.
Regenerated Cellulose Fibres
Regenerated cellulose fibres are, like viscose, textile fibres produced from the cellulose of plants using a chemical process and include rayon, lyocell, tencel.
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