How Clothes Are Made From Plastic
Thanks to new recycling technologies we can now turn plastic bottles into soft polyester thread to make eco friendly clothing.
How clothes are made from plastic. G star raw for the oceans a clothing line made out of recycled polyethylene terephthalate pet bottles launched in 2014 by a celebrity music icon pharrell williams. Threads so small they can drain out of our washing machines and pass straight through wastewater treatment plants into the sea. Clothes made from ocean plastic lately there are more clothes and other products made out of plastic marine pollution but is it really healthy. It is good to be creative and find a way to keep things out of the landfill but lets not risk poisoning ourselves in the process.
The thing is every time we wash these materials they shed millions of plastic microfibres. Pet is a thermoplastic polyester resin translation. Preysman sees it as a chance to take recycled plastic clothing mainstreamnot just in workout clothes or outdoors gear but in the kind of fashion basics people wear everyday. In fact most new fabrics are made of plastic up to 64 of them.
Polyester nylon acrylic and other synthetic fibers all of which are forms of plastic are now about 60 percent of the material that makes up our clothes worldwide. Thats a mouth full well call it pet.