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All right, is there a sustainable alternative for fashion?[qh]
好吧，时尚界有可持续的替代品吗？[qh]
Maybe fabrics with 0% animal or plastic? Is that even possible?[qh]
也许是不含动物或塑料的面料？这可能吗？[qh]
Well, actually it is.[qh]
嗯，实际上是这样的。[qh]
This London-based biotech company, Modern Synthesis, has developed a way to create low-impact textiles using bacteria.[qh]
这家位于伦敦的生物技术公司，现代合成公司，已经开发出一种利用细菌制造环保的纺织品的方法。[qh]
Yes, you heard that right, bacteria.[qh]
是的，你没听错，细菌。[qh]
But to create raw materials using this process at a mass scale like the fashion industry would need, it will be costly.[qh]
但要像时装产业需要的那样，大规模使用这种工艺生产原材料，成本将会很高。[qh]
Just how much is the question? Take a look.[qh]
问题是多少钱？看一看。[qh]
Strong, lightweight and versatile. But this material isn't like anything you know.[qh]
结实、轻便、多功能。但这种材料和你知道的任何东西都不一样。[qh]
It's been created with bacteria.[qh]
它是由细菌产生的。[qh]
Biotechnology startup Modern Synthesis is learning from and collaborating with living organisms to make brand new low-impact textiles.[qh]
生物技术初创公司现代合成公司正在学习并与生物体合作，制造全新的环保纺织品。[qh]
Bacteria are really amazing. Sometimes they can be harmful, but most of the time they're really beneficial.[qh]
细菌真的很神奇。有时它们是有害的，但大多数时候它们是有益的。[qh]
We use bacteria to make sourdough bread, cheese, yogurt.[qh]
我们用细菌制作酵母面包、奶酪、酸奶。[qh]
We can work with bacteria to make even more exciting new products.[qh]
我们可以利用细菌制造出更令人兴奋的新产品。[qh]
The aim? To create sustainable alternatives to traditional fabrics and help curb emissions and pollution associated with the fashion industry.[qh]
目的？创造传统面料的可持续替代品，帮助遏制与时尚产业相关的排放和污染。[qh]
Key to the company's process is cellulose, a type of fiber with a higher strength-to-weight ratio.[qh]
该公司工艺的关键是纤维素，一种具有更高强度重量比的纤维。[qh]
It's known as nature's building block.[qh]
它被称为大自然的基石。[qh]
It makes up materials like cotton, wood and bamboo.[qh]
它构成棉花、木材和竹子等材料。[qh]
It all starts here, with a bacteria invisible to the human eye.[qh]
一切从这里开始，一种肉眼看不见的细菌。[qh]
It's called K. rhaeticus and it's isolated from kombucha, fermented tea.[qh]
它被称为雷氏念珠菌，是从康普茶中分离出来的，康普茶是一种发酵茶。[qh]
We feed that with sugars and then it produces nanocellulose, which is a special, fine, strong form of cellulose.[qh]
我们给它喂糖，然后它就会产生纳米纤维素，这是一种特殊的、精细的、坚固的纤维素。[qh]
It's eight times stronger than steel on a fiber level.[qh]
它的纤维强度是钢的8倍。[qh]
We can then process it, manipulate it at the nanostructure.[qh]
然后我们可以处理它，在纳米结构上操纵它。[qh]
We use green chemistries to process the material to add additional functionalities, whether that be waterproofness or just aesthetic properties like color and different patterning.[qh]
我们使用绿色化学物质来处理材料，以增加额外的功能，无论是防水还是审美特性，如颜色和不同的图案。[qh]
We then form the material together with a natural textile.[qh]
然后，我们将这种材料与一种天然纺织品结合在一起。[qh]
And that allows us to customize the kind of strength and flexibility in new ways.[qh]
这使我们能够以新的方式定制这种强度和灵活性。[qh]
The final products are 100% animal and plastic free.[qh]
最终产品100%不含动物和塑料。[qh]
But to create products on a mass scale, like the fashion industry is used to, is costly.[qh]
但要像时尚行业过去那样大规模生产产品，成本很高。[qh]
In the long run, I'm confident that we can create materials that can sit at the same price points as those that we use today.[qh]
从长远来看，我相信我们可以创造出与我们现今所使用材料价格相同的材料。[qh]
And to use existing equipment from the textile industry and the food industry so that we don't have to build everything from scratch.[qh]
并且使用纺织工业和食品工业的现有设备，这样我们就不必从头开始建造所有的东西。[qh]
Modern Synthesis is part of a growing number of companies in the next generation material space, producing new textiles from raw materials such as mushroom mycelium, algae or bacteria.[qh]
现代合成公司是下一代越来越多的材料领域公司的组成部分，他们用蘑菇菌丝体、藻类或细菌等原材料生产新的纺织品。[qh]
For the first time, we're able to offer the aesthetic and the performance of the materials that we use every day, but without the plastic and without the animal.[qh]
这是第一次，我们能够提供我们每天使用的材料的美学和性能，但没有塑料和动物。[qh]
And I can't stress how hard that is.[qh]
我无法强调这有多难。[qh]
