{"id":63218,"date":"2024-06-17T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/textiles.ncsu.edu\/?p=63218"},"modified":"2024-06-17T16:26:07","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T20:26:07","slug":"researching-sustainable-dyes-for-college-credit-at-nc-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/textiles.ncsu.edu\/news\/2024\/06\/researching-sustainable-dyes-for-college-credit-at-nc-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Researching Sustainable Dyes for College Credit at NC State"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
Nearly every human-made product we come into contact with on a daily basis uses some sort of dye, from makeup and clothing to paint and plastic products. That makes the negative environmental impacts of dyes an especially important problem to solve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Madigan Petri spent her time at the Wilson College of Textiles<\/a> making progress towards a solution with the Sustainable Dye Chemistry Lab<\/a> during her independent research course: PCC 490. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe\u2019re working on finding ways to optimize natural dye processes to make them more available to the industry,\u201d Petri \u201924 says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n