Post Carbon Lab




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We’re hiring — but doing it differently this time 🙃

No rigid job specs 🖼
No shapeshifting to fit a box 📦
Just true alignment on values, mission & skills 💫

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At Post Carbon Lab, we upcycle CO₂ 🫧with microbes 🦠 to make industrial dyes, pigments, coatings & finishes. Now, we’re looking for kindred spirits to grow with us 🌱

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✨ Ideal if you’re:
🧠 A scientist, engineer, or creative polymath
🎤 Someone who questions the status quo
😌 Comfortable navigating cross-disciplinary uncertainties

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We want to work with people with strengths in:
🔬 Biotech / Microbiology / Bioprocess
⚙️ Industrial Processes/ Green Chemistry / Materials
📣 Marketing / Communication / Content Strategy
📊 Business Ops / Strategy / Research

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This isn’t a plug-and-play job.
It’s a chance to co-create your own role — and help build the future you want to live in 🌍

📋 Fill out our Expression of Interest
(Link in bio or search “Post Carbon Lab Jotform”)

✨ Or share it with someone too brilliant to be boxed in.

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We are hosting an event in collaboration with The Worshipful Company of Dyers , our manufacturing partner , and a natural colour education facilitator in early July 🥳

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In the past few months, we’ve been working hard on research for our White Paper about the bottlenecks, opportunities and what’s stopping us from turning good will into action.

We spoke to many industry stakeholders and we are excited to share the research outcome with the industry professionals in colour 🌈, fashion/textile 👗 & polymers 🥽

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Whether you are a brainy decision-maker or a kinaesthetic creative, there is something for everyone 😉

Come watch, touch and swatch your way into the world of microbial & botanical colours at our hands-on event at Dyers’ Hall, London on 3 July!

✨ Explore how BioColours can quantitatively & qualitatively impact the colour value chain

🖐️ Create your own swatch book with microbial & botanical colours

👃Touch, smell & feel the colours, texture and finishes and ask questions you have


🎤 Join dialogues, see demos & drop-in BioColour Guru sessions

📅 Thursday 3 July

📍 Dyers’ Hall, London

🎟️ Tickets from £10
(Link in bio or search "Post Carbon Lab TicketTailor")

We’re keeping it intimate—limited seats, rich experiences 💥

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This project is kindly supported by and 💞

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It’s been 4 years since we started Post Carbon Lab 🥳 and we’re beyond grateful for all the support we’ve received. Your love and kindness have carried us through tough times and helped us reach where we are today ❤️

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Our journey wouldn’t be the same without the incredible, unyielding women we’ve met along the way 🤩:

, led by women, has been pioneering fashion sustainability education and creating waves in both industry and academia before us 🌊

‘s Women in Innovation programme gave us the opportunity to connect with remarkable women—each successful in their fields, transforming the world while raising families and leading teams 💃👩‍👧‍👦

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It’s been such an honour to learn from and be inspired by these amazing women. We’d love to invite you to celebrate the collective power of female leadership with us 💪🌈

📍 London College of Fashion, East Bank

📅 18 October, next Friday
⏰ 4-6 pm

Feel free to bring your loved ones 👶🐶🐱
We look forward to seeing you there 👋☺️
RSVP

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We are thrilled 🤩 to share with you that we’ve been selected for the Global Business Innovation Program in Japan to build collaborations & partnerships 🌏

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With a packed agenda planned and valuable networking meetings scheduled, we will join the other UK SME delegates and the Innovate UK London team on an insightful visit to Tokyo to explore local innovations and business opportunities to enable us to access the market.

Lab coats off, business suits on!

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If you are in Japan and would like to meet/chat to explore collaboration & partnership opportunities or just grab a friendly coffee/tea, send us a DM 💬or email 📧😉

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🌝newyear


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Today marks the eve of the mystical dragon’s lunar new year 🐲✨

We’d like to share our 🦠 algae geode 💎 in the making, who also made us a little green moon 🌜

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For the new year, we’ll change our content style 🪄, reduce the wording 😶, strengthen our audiovisual aesthetics 👀🦻 and experiment with everyone here 👩‍🔬🧑‍🔬 to see what you’re more interested in 😬

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Your likes, comments & interactions will help us identify what you’re most interested in 😉

So stay tuned for our updates & feel free to leave questions, comments, critiques or little chitchats here 🤗

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Happy lunar new year & take care 🥰

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Today marks the enchanting ✨ winter solstice 🌚, a time when the world embraces the longest night and welcomes the promise of returning light. We hope you’re revelling in the warmth of cherished company 💕 as we prepare for the holiday 🍷 feast or cosy hibernation 🛌 ahead.

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Though winter solstice evokes images of leafless trees and chilling nights, let’s take a moment to honour the hidden lives of surrounding species that endure the cold nights with us. Thanks to them, we can forage locally & wildly grown chemical compounds that nature has in abundance for us to experiment with for creating sustainable colours/coatings/formulae 💚

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In one of our foraging adventures, we stumbled upon a magical ✨ tiny baby snail 👶🐚 who accidentally hitched a ride back to our lab along with the foraged plants. This little snail was so adorable 💕🥰 We made sure that our wee friend was safely reunited with its snail mates, letting it continue its adventure in east London wilderness.

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This winter solstice, let’s celebrate not just the human connections but also the intricate web of life around us 🕸👋 In our pursuit of environmentally beneficial creations, we’re constantly reminded of the beauty and resilience of itty-bitty creatures that cross paths with us and the valuable lessons they can teach us if we’re open to learning.

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As we embrace the changing seasons, may the winter solstice inspire us to cherish the unseen stories, the silent companions, and the symbiotic relationships that thrive even in the coldest times 😘 Share your tales of unexpected encounters with nature or your cosy winter traditions in the comments below with us!

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Some of you have asked us what we do, so we’ll try our best to explain them here 😬

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At Post Carbon Lab, we're on a mission with our brilliant team of multidisciplinary scientists & researchers, with combined professional experience of over 100 years 👩‍🔬, to tackle the environmental challenges faced by the textile & colour/finish industries.

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We work collaboratively with businesses on R&D projects that use textiles & colours by understanding their sustainability challenges and identifying the most suitable microbial treatments that adhere to their technical performance & impact criteria to support their development.

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By employing vegan nutrients from plants & microbes and only necessary green chemical compounds, we have built 3 ways for companies to work with us:
1.Microbial Colouration: exploring a range of colourants produced through cultivating microbes.
2.Photosynthetic Coating™️: our climate-positive coating that fosters a symbiotic relationship between user & textile products.
3.Open-brief Microbial Application R&D: consult us with your interest in the microbial application area and we combine innovative research discoveries to solve your sustainability/technical obstacles.

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If you have a microbial-based collaborative R&D project in mind, feel free to DM or email [email protected] 😉 (email link is on our profile 😚)

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What does everyone think about COP28?

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We’ve received a complimentary Climate Leader Pass to attend COP28 in Dubai, UAE 🌴As a tiny entity working to ameliorate the local climate health, we are flattered & grateful to be given such a great opportunity to engage with other industry & policy stakeholders.

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Though it is a wonderful occasion to share our work & vision, it is difficult to disregard the hypocrisy behind hosting a climate summit in a country where 3.2 million barrels of petrol are produced daily (US ITA), which we don’t feel so comfortable endorsing.

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We know it’s impossible to solve the climate crisis on one's own, so creating places to make these things happen are crucial. We also acknowledge that there are people who are genuinely involved in climate actions & promoting climate justice at COP28. However, the obvious issue is the conflict of interest.

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We chatted with a friend in UAE/Qatar about what the locals think about sustainability. It appeared that there is little interest in stopping/reducing oil-related activities but more focus on developing untapped natural gas reserves.

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The rationale is historical, psychological & economic. Developed countries have grown their economy to prosperity thanks to their oil exports, so for them, it is only fair they get to do the same. When they are prosperous enough, they’ll adopt available sustainable elements to change their lifestyle/economy.

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If we work collectively & transparently at COP28 to reverse calculate the carbon quota we have before reaching 1.5℃, then dividing that quota evenly to 7.9 billion population to deduce the lifestyle we can have, at least we'll be able to enjoy the final glory equally (which won’t work well because of humanity 🤣)

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After all, if we don’t know how much we need to change, why would anyone put themselves through painful changes? If we can't change ourselves, how can we change others? Will we run out of time before real change happens? Possibly, but at least we can say we’ve tried our best 💪😉

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How is everyone? 👐
Sorry that we haven’t been the most active on social media 😅
But we are back to share our recent features & update everyone with what we have been up to 😉

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Our work has been featured in the November issue of as part of their main cover story: The Race To Save The Planet!

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This issue is available at both online book stores & high-street bookshops, so feel free to grab one now if you are interested in the carbon convos 😎

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We have been invited to contribute to this feature since last summer and the National Geographic editing team has decided to include our bioprinted textile sample created by embedding photosynthetic microbes 🦠 into the substrate with a digitally printed pattern 🦾🦿

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We also feel honoured 🥰 to see our work has made it into the final edits amongst other mind-blowing innovations like artificial diamonds , vodka and aviation fuel , all made from captured CO2.

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Ever since our account was targeted by Instagram bots last year, we felt a bit disheartened to keep posting. However, now we have better protection mechanisms in place, we will try to share more updates from our work here again 😗🤞
It is a pleasure to welcome our new friends here and to have our old mates around 🥰

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Last week, we showcased our Post Carbon Colours on adorable baby clothes at the Future Fabrics Expo! 🩳🩲👚👀

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We are very grateful & honoured to take part in this incredible celebration of sustainability in fashion 🙏😊 Thank you for the incredible organisation & wonderful team 🎉👏

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As part of the Algae Innovation Hub, we shared our new colour palettes derived from photosynthetic microbes 🦠 & green chemistry, which we have been working hard to reach industry standards.

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Our bubbling green algae babies stole the show and it is such a delight to see the joy & curiosity on people’s faces as they interact with our tiny eco-warriors.

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But that's not all! We also showcased our microbial coloured peace silk skeins at the . It is such an honour for us to be a part of this beautiful collective that creates vivid colours without fossil fuels. 🎨✨

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Finally, we’d like to say special thanks 😘 to our new & old friends for coming by to say hi 👋 and your insights, feedback, greetings & little chats, it was truly heartwarming 🙏🥰

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Whether you had the chance to visit our little display corner or not, we invite you to reach out to us if you're interested in exploring the power of togetherness between nature, people & industry!

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How’s everyone? 👋 We have been silent because we have been working hard on our research 🔬, experiment 🧪 & development 📑

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We are honoured today to be invited to the Women In Innovation event to hear from the inspiring & zealous females making changes in their field!!

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We are also very humbled to be one of the Women In Innovation awardees among all the reality-bending, stereotype-defying & passion-fuelled women 🌪

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As female founders, we have heard more equality talks 🗣than the equity we actually take in the real world 🌫

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We’ve also had our fair share of being dismissed 🫣, disrespected 😑 and automatically identified as subsidiaries 🫥 of other men despite we are the ones in charge.

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However, if we stop resisting these discriminations and take the easy step to conform or stay silent, we won’t make any changes 😕 which means more people will continue to be subject to the same frustrations 🥺

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At the same time, if we do it altogether, it’s much less scary 😜 Let’s celebrate the International Women’s Day together to empower & thank ourselves unapologetically!! 🥳

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Wish everyone a happy women’s day & thank you for being a part of our journey 🙏❤️

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