Stitching a Sustainable Future in Fashion | Rawaa Ammar | TEDxBrussels

Rawaa Ammar sheds light on sustainable fashion, focusing on textile waste and recycling challenges. She shares her journey from Lebanon to leading eco-design innovation, emphasizing her passion for science and sustainable solutions. Rawaa introduces a heat-dissolvable stitching thread for textile recycling, advocating for circular fashion to reduce emissions, waste, and water usage. She combines personal stories and data to advocate for a rethink in fashion production and recycling, inspiring the audience to support circular solutions for a sustainable fashion industry and planet. Dr. Rawaa Ammar is Resortecs' Chief Sustainability & Impact Officer. As an expert in climate risk mitigation, decarbonization, and LCA with 15 years of experience, she leads the sustainability strategy. She is connecting different stakeholders to accelerate the circular transition in fashion. Passionate about nature, science, and social equity, she holds a Ph.D. in Earth and Environmental Sciences from ULB in Brussels and is a former visiting professor at The Lebanese University in Beirut. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@paprichaat]

My God, this woman is brilliant. She’s a global treasure.

[@hafizaelhalabi7609]

Hi I am so proud of and more proud to see how passionate about environment you are love ❤️ to get in touch with you to do what ever we can for our world 🌎

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So proud of you, God bless and be with you always 🙏🙏

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Brilliant speech God bless you 👍🙏

[@samieldib]

God bless your efforts 🙏🏻 🙌

[@carmenartigas1]

This sounds like a wonderful, technologically advanced solution suitable for developed markets and economies. However, we must urgently implement mechanical and manual recycling operations in regions heavily impacted by discarded clothing and footwear from the West.

[@TheoTheo909]

👏👏👏 proud of you cousin

[@BabyBlue1308]

How much heat? I am wondering about this causing clothes to have an even shorter lifespan because of the washing/drying habits of most consumers. Will drying an item on high heat regularly with this thread cause it to disconnect? Realistically, this is how a lot of people dry their clothes and I'm concerned on how helpful this can really be if it risks disassembly before someone is ready to be done with an article of clothing.
Also, high heat is used for various things across the industry before reaching consumers so if, for example, printing and heat pressing a t-shirt to prepare it for sale in retail will cause the stitches to disappear, unfortunately this might be counter productive.