Rhea's Factory Wins Global Change Award 2026 for AI-Designed Enzymes Enabling Textile-to-Textile Recycling
Rhea's Factory is one of ten winners of the H&M Foundation's 2026 Global Change Award for RheaCycle™ — our platform of AI-designed enzymes that break down polyester in blended textile waste into virgin-quality building blocks. The award includes a €200,000 grant and a place in the year-long Global Change Award accelerator.
Rhea's Factory awarded for textile-to-textile recycling technology
Recycling Today covers our Global Change Award win, detailing how RheaCycle™ uses machine learning to design enzymes that turn polyester scrap into virgin-quality molecular building blocks for true textile-to-textile recycling.
Diversify: Founder Photography Experience
Female Founders in Focus — an influential photography experience celebrating the resilience, innovation, and leadership of women entrepreneurs — featured our co-founder and CEO Arzu Sandıkçı.
Building Rhea's Factory: How AI-Designed Enzymes Could Finally Solve Plastic Recycling
In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Arzu Sandıkçı (co-founder and CEO) and Mert Topcu (co-founder) of Rhea's Factory, a startup using engineered enzymes and AI to achieve what mechanical recycling can't: breaking plastic all the way back to its original molecular building blocks.