This High School Pupil Has Found a Way to Treat Water Polluted by Fast Fashion

Emily Kim is a student from Jericho, New York. She has developed a way to remove toxic dyes from wastewater using activated charcoal and UV light. Textile dyeing is the world’s second largest source of global water pollution. Many synthetic dyes pose health risks to plants, animals and people once they find their way into fresh water supplies or food chains.