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The future of textile recycling is here.

Poly-cotton textile waste

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High-quality, purified outputs
from mixed textile waste.

100% pure polyester monomer

100% pure cotton

We enable infinite textile-to-textile recycling, using enzymes.

Just add water, salt, and enzyme.

Our enzymes gently separate out synthetic fibers, leaving natural fibers behind virtually untouched.

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Iteratively powerful. Sustainable and economical.

1:1

Cost parity with virgin materials at scale

10x

Less CapEx cost compared to chemical recycling

2.1 CO2e

Emissions offset per ton textile waste recycled

5x

Increased enzyme efficiency every 3 months

>95%

Separation efficiency of polyester from cotton

<10%

Reduction in cotton fiber length after processing

We prioritize not only strong sustainability metrics
but also hyper-scalable process economics.

Our proprietary enzyme engineering platform unlocks unprecedented economies of scale.

The faster our enzyme, the lower our process cost,
just like a flywheel.

We go to where the waste is.

Our process is simple enough to co-locate with textile manufacturers and waste aggregators.

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Simple yet versatile.

Our process tolerates elastane, dyes, and most other contaminating materials.

Where other recycling processes fail,
Huminly achieves best-in-class performance.

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Nikita Khlystov

CEO & Founder

formerly MIT, Stanford, & SpaceX

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Neil Bell

Advisor

formerly Levi's

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Randy Harward

Advisor

formerly Patagonia, Under Armour

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Carlos Ramirez

Process Engineer

formerly UC Berkeley, AirMyne

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Sean Hunt

Advisor

co-CEO at Solugen

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Sydney Gladman

Advisor

formerly Material Innovation Initative

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Passion + Discipline
= Impact.

Our company's values:

  1. We are principled: we build what our customers need, not what looks good

  2. We relentlessly ask why: we do not let challenges become obstacles and we question the way things are usually done

  3. Momento mori:  we iterate fast as time is our most valuable asset

  4. We make work intense yet fulfilling: we seek immense personal growth together as a team and actively look out for one another

  5. We stay humble: startups are hard, and we don’t make it harder with ego and excuses

We are recruiting the uncommon among uncommon engineers.
View our available positions here.

Ready to partner with us?

We cut through red tape and
move straight to actionable results.


Onboarding is straightforward and fast:

Week 0

Consultation
We schedule a 30-minute call to learn about your company's needs

Week 1

Qualification
Our team receives material from you and runs a recycling trial to assess performance

Week 4

Optimization
We run our engineering platform to fine-tune our recycling process to your needs

Week 12

Co-location
We work with your team to bring our process to your facilities for operation

Select an Option
How did you hear about us?

With proud support from:

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Let's get valorizing

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