Can a multi-disciplinary designer turn agricultural and industrial waste into raw materials for creativity? Shubhi Sachan, founder of the Material Library of India, joins Grant Gibson to discuss unlocking the potential in India's complex waste landscape.

In this episode, we dive into the global and local impact of waste. We discuss:

• The Material Library of India: Establishing a new center for research in New Delhi in 2017.
• Waste Colonialism: Tackling the ethical dimensions of international textile waste.
• Reimagining Cotton: Why the crop needs to be completely rethought as climate-adaptive.
• Rejected Condom Streetwear: Turning manufacturing flaws into a radical new material collection.
• The Future of MLI: Reusing industrial materials in a capitalist world.

Shubhi also reflects on opening a textile thrift store and why her family has questioned her path.

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