What Happens to All Those Water Bottles?
Where do your recycled water bottles go? Maybe you are wearing them!Who would have thought it! Carpeting and textiles are now being made from recycled plastic bottles! The polyester fibers made from recycled plastic bottles are now being used to reduce the manufacturing costs for textiles. They can even make fabrics like fleece, corduroy and velvet
from recycled PET bottles!
The sorted PET bottles will be sterilized, dried and crushed into small chips, separating the clear PET bottle chips from colored PET bottle chips. Once the chips are ready they go through a heating process that will then form “yarn-threads” that are wound up in spools. The yarn threads then go through a crimping machine which give them the fluffy wooly texture. The crimped polyester yarns are then dried and baled and have to pass quality control before they are considered fit for selling.
Polyester fabrics made from recycled plastic bottles are more energy efficient compared to virgin polyester fabrics since the virgin fabrics start out with the processing and heating of the chemical “polyethylene terephthalate” to achieve the required consistency.
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