How researchers hack bacteria to dye blue jeans
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2024
- To give jeans their signature blue hue and fading abilities, it’s estimated that over 70,000 tons of synthetic indigo dye are made each year. One team of scientists is reverse engineering indigo molecules using microbes and sugar to clean up the process.
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00:00 Intro
00:40 Why indigo?
01:12 Natural vs. synthetic indigo dye
01:56 Dying demo
03:06 Environmental impact of dyes
04:01 How Huue makes biosynthetic indigo dye from microbes
07:22 Regulation and voluntary efforts
07:45 Jeans can be slow fashion
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What other everyday objects should we dive into next?
The fact that the VW lupo 3L variant from 20 years ago is still about the most fuel efficient conventional car you can buy. Normal cars use 3 times more fuel.
Anything with Teflon.
@@nutzeeer It's not that interesting that an 1800 lb (deathtrap) turbo diesel (literally poisoning everyone in the neighborhood) didn't use a lot of fuel.
Condom industry.
@@aluisious its not a death trap in europe, where not everybody is driving a literal tank like in the US
The fact that genetic engineering is to the point where we can just throw a molecule at bacteria and say "Replicate that!" is phenomenal! Science is truly amazing
It's not, but ok
@@lexruptor lol, you were able to write that ignorant message because...... science...........biatch.
Can we throw gold at them?
Yo can we replicate oxygen
DNA sequencing and molecular cloning have been around since 1973, but the equipment is improving and new applications coming up. Also, they didn't give the molecule to the bacteria, they found the gene that codes for indigo production and injected it into the bacteria.
So you could effectively call this process “Jean editing”?
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Noice!
Have I not understood a joke?
I live for these comments
Ah. Gene.
love how he pours the powdered dry chemicals in the bucket on a windy day, mixes them up and THEN puts on a mask
Kudos to this video. I won't look at jeans the same way ever! Very educative!
Honestly I never really cared about the color of my jeans for the most part. I don't want ones that are "pre aged" but otherwise I could care less about the color. I care more about how they're made, what they're made of, and how comfy they are.
Indeed, quality is more important than any aesthetic consideration, but we should not need to choose between those attributes during this age of efficiency of market-research, manufacturing, and distribution.
"Cross my fingers fashion doesn't move on super quickly"
Funny I was thinking cross my fingers my waist doesn't expand much in 10 years 🤣 Because I've been wearing the same style/brand of jeans for over 25 years, but I couldn't ever get 10 years out of a single pair.
That laser fade finishing is an interesting process
Till yesterday I was working with blue denim pants in a garment factory in Bangladesh on behalf of OVS. I had to quality check 14000+ of them in 9 days for upto 13 hours a day from 7 am to 9 pm,lunch break at 11.30 am. After the 3rd day I realized I don't have my fingerprints anymore,they are gone because of friction and probably because of the dye. My whole body turned blue and it won't go away even after washing my hands with soap. My clothes turned shades of blue only after wearing a day. Did I mention the factory has poor ventilation so it's freaking hot!
That's horrendous. No one should have to deal with working conditions like that.
Do you even work in America
These international buyers don't really care about workers,they just look the other way and let it be as long as they don't get exposed. Yesterday someone from Calvin Klein visited the factory so they let us at 6 pm because legally they're not allowed to make us work more than 10 hours. Even though inflation is almost 10% in Bangladesh these giant entities don't want to increase the price. We get paid according to a 2019 resolution. I spend upto 15 hours everyday on this job.
@@arefinahmed4682 Wow. That's fucked up. What company do you work for?
It's a Bangladeshi group with multinational members working on the higher levels and like everyone else they have mostly fixed buyers who makes their brand clothing here. The only thing they give is money which they provide on the basis of lowest possible bid. There are Brands like Zara,NEXT, Calvin Klein and more but I don't know the full list cause I am not allowed in any other places other than where I am supposed to work.
Anything you buy the cost is usually 15% of that for less expensive brands. I know that cause I had access to confidential documents of multiple retail Brands like Zara, NEXT,Kiabi,Aldi and more where I used to work previously.
One complication is that the indigo dye doesn't penetrate the cotton fibers, but merely coats them. The fading is caused by the dye falling off the fibers as they are worn, and the fibers rubbed, leaving the white cotton thread. Getting a dye to stay on the fibers while also not penetrating the fibers is the tricky part. Would probably be a lot easier if we were willing to give up the iconic fading.
That explains why the dye of my trousers disappears so quickly. To think that it is stupidly deliberate.
no, those are likely cheap china brands
It's often how I get a case of Blue Balls... and the Doctor thinks something else....
I only wear black ones. They probably ain't much better.
wait, what does jean fabric look like before applying dye?
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If the dye is just dirty, no problem. If the dye makes men's balls disfigured, this should've been fixed ages ago
Jeanetic Engineer!
I've always worn black jeans.
Is black better?
I haven't owned blue jeans since I was a child.
Im so sorry to hear you lost your legs at such a young age
Are those bacteria Synthetic can cause skin infection or allergy?
I had a pair turn my legs blue once
Interesting stuff
What do you mean no one? I learnt about this in a-level geography and haven't purchased one since
The problem I see is dumping a whole bucket of perfectly usable dye mix after dying a single shirt... This is why the environment is doomed without mass scale
That's pretty dope.
I'm suprised that the solution isn't to just go back using the natural plant, something that would give many more jobs to lots of people instead of using a new chemical product made by one company
Funny, none of the environmental impacts are addressed by the presented company as they only produce the pigment. The chemicals needed to reduce it to the leucobase will still be used and companies not better regulated because of their supplier. The carbon footprint may be smaller, but that was not mentioned so I assume it is not.
Always wash new clothes before first use!
knowing its that dangerous he is still using a regular short gloves...His hand isn't be fully protected
What I take from this video is that GMOs are the savior of blue-jeans.
Gotta love that the lab tech is wearing a Metallica tshirt.
Funny that you would say "Dad Jeans"
yet no mention of iconic "Mom Jeans"😆
Everyone should have to wear gray sweatpants and t-shirts at all time.
why didnt you dispose propperly?
yeah thats the same reasons why big companies dont do it ;D
The stuff makes me so allergic. I don't buy jeans anymore. Itchy!!!
Make sure your gloves go up to the elbow, before you are dipping your hands into buckets full of dye! 🤦♂️
I've never liked jeans. I have one pair for doing chainsaw or similar work. They are black.
I dont own a single pair of jeans 🤷♂️
I think that's great. Jeans are only for macho, fascist boomer types.
Loser
I don't own a pair of jeans! What do I win for being so special? 😆😆
They want to get in to everyone's jeans 🤔
How researchers use genes to dye blue jeans
Methylene blue?
I like only Black...
Wonderful stuff, but as hinted at towards the end, reduce, reuse, recycle, in that order. We had no jeans, and a friend gave us a pair they had that they weren't wearing.
I'd rather not wear jeans than have polluted rivers thanks.
Jeans!
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I wouldnt know, it was my new years resolution to stop wearing blue jeans, expand your mind and your fits
Who else is watching this video whilst wearing a pair of blue jeans? 🖐
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Brave browser.
hot take
i would wear undyed jeans. can i just have some undyed jeans?
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What are humans
It wouldn't be nearly as much of a problem if ppl actually wore them, buy thrift, and fix the ripped ones.
@@RokeJulianLockhart.s13ouq No.
The "industry problem" is capitalism. Look at how much waste corporations produce, that's not the jean wearers fault
TRUUUUE
Indigo itself isn’t nice if it end up everywhere.
They have to learn to recycle the remaining dye, even if it’s not profitable.
Corporations DON'T operate this way! Waste costs money. Industrial dyeing is 1000x more efficient than this guy, his bucket, and his baseless speculations.
Really don't want to wear bacteria though.
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Make sure you Wash them Before you wear them or you will get a case of "Blue Balls"... Sorry ladies, I don't know what they call it for you. "Blue Lips" maybe?
I've never been able to wear jeans, it irritates my skin. And after hearing this.... I'm really glad that's always been my situation. I think all of these fake synthetic matetials contribute to cancers and other sicknesses in the long term.
@One 😮
hi
I wear khaki cargo shorts?
What is the question?
@@RokeJulianLockhart.s13ouq how are they made, and what is their impact on the environment?
@@edwardskerl5774 not indigo
I'm Ron Burgundy?
@@edwardskerl5774 Every attribute of how they are created is very dependent upon which entity manufactured them.
If that dye is as dangerous as you say, the mask you put on at at 2:36 will not protect you.
Won't even protect from that 91divoc thing going around since the 91divoc is Smaller than the passages of the masks they are trying to force us to wear and has been proven as such. 91divoc is Less than 1 micron in size and the Masks they are trying to force us to wear (Unless specially bought) have 4-5 micron Size passages in them.... but the specially bought ones have Oxygen Supplied/Attached to them because 02/Oxygen is like 1-2 Microns in size... and Most Bacteria is 3-4 Microns in size... All Proven and They have Actually Admitted.
I hate jeans. I haven't worn one in 20 years. They' so heavy and uncomfortable.
I always wear sweatpants, track pants or shorts.
wait wait wait. that ugly fade is intentional?
?
you shouldn't need to wash your jeans very often at all. unless you're sweating profusely in them or getting them really dirty they can last weeks or months without having to be washed.
wow
Always amazes me that people buy ripped jeans. Do the planet a favour and stick to the normal kind
I'm 29, don't own even one pair of jeans
Why genes it has much
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No more jeans for me!
No mention of Levi or the Jewish laws to wear blue cotton?
The magical American word to get attention: “toxic”
the first 4 minutes are so misleading.
producing anything will be dangerous to workers and will harm the enviornment if not done properly.
also throwing out big numbers and big ifs just to scare people, you can claim anything, where is your proof?
Please get a textile scientist or engineer to check scripts about the industry. The company knows what they are doing, but your reporter is mixing things up. Hard to listen to
Really ? no more science videos, just paid sellout marketing ? This channel is dead.
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