Post Carbon Lab

Post Carbon Lab is a UK-based biotech research and development social enterprise that turns carbon emissions into colours, pigments, dyes and coatings with the help of microbes. Its two core technologies, Microbial Colouration and Photosynthetic Coating, are offered to textile and polymer-based businesses in fashion, interiors and automotive as more sustainable alternatives to conventional dyeing, printing and wet-processing methods.

The company frames its work as regenerative sustainability activism, arguing that industry should contribute positively to ecosystems rather than only reduce harm. Alongside its own development it offers consultancy, publishes research and runs workshops, positioning microbial colour as an industrial route to lower-carbon finishes for manufacturers working towards net zero.