Seshadri Ramkumar, Professor, Texas Tech University, USA
As the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee is convening in Ottawa, Canada, April 23-29, 2024 to come up with a treaty on plastic pollution, a walk down the memory lane on how cotton-based technology helps to clean up oil pollution will be an interesting exercise.
FiberTect wipe depending on the types of fibers used enables applications in environmental protection, military and human health is a model for the translational research.
FibertTect decontamination wipe with cotton layers was selected by Cotton Incorporated as one of the seven technologies to showcase advanced applications of cotton.
As part of “Innovation: Teaching an Old Plant New Tricks,” Cotton Incorporated sponsored this initiative way back in 2010.
FiberTect developed at Texas Tech University, which has become a commercial technology saving lives, enhancing human health and protecting the environment is a story to showcase, “Mind to Market.”
Paul Budline Productions of Princeton, NJ masterfully developed the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTyxGMWrA1M
