Belgian startup Novobiom tests mushroom strains to break down textile waste

Novobiom, a Belgian biotech startup, is testing fungal strains to degrade textile waste at a lab in Louvain-la-Neuve. The technology is at an early R&D stage, with no commercial deployment or scale-up details disclosed. It signals a potential circular-economy solution for the fashion industry's waste problem, but remains unproven at industrial scale.