ALT TEX is creating the world’s most radically sustainable polyester alternative, from one of the world’s largest landfill contributors – food waste.

60% of the clothes we wear are made of plastic. Polyester manufacturing uses 55 million barrels of oil annually, and is a leading contributor to the 10% of GHG emissions generated by the industry. In the 21st century, we shouldn’t be wearing plastic.

We generate 1 billion tons of food waste annually – why not put it to good use? At ALT TEX, we’re taking one of the world’s most abundant waste sources – food, and using it to overturn one of the world’s most polluting industries – fashion.

Our patent-pending food-to-fabric technology reengineers food waste into a bioplastic fiber.

The performance we love from synthetic textiles, without the damage.

ALT TEX came together as a group of scientists and entrepreneurs passionate about the fashion industry and tired of its stagnancy. We believe rapid and radical innovation is the only way to overcome the industry’s complacency, and it will take a small group of innovators on the outside looking in to do that.

And that’s where we come in. We’re a team of entrepreneurs and scientists on a mission to develop an alternative synthetic material that could reduce the impact of fast fashions wasteful practices.

After years of research, the team has created the first ALT TEX fabric from food waste, scaled 100X, raised millions of dollars and is working to commercialize over the next couple years.