text:  The group aims to use creativity and invention to promote a more sustainable world. For Rivera, that means... I try to look at ways we can sort of take waste and reuse it. He and a group of researchers set out to tackle textile waste. Because many of the fibers used to make cheap clothes are hard to recycle, his team came up with an interesting solution. In this work, we look at creating fibers from these biomaterials and then using them to create textiles that we could potentially wear.