How do you turn recycled plastic into fabric?
rPET or recycled polyester is a fabric
How do you turn recycled plastic into fabric?
The process of making eco-friendly fabrics is simply cleaning all the collected plastic bottles. After cleaning, drying, and crushing into small chips, these chips will be melted, and then spun into fibers.
A huge advantage to using recycled plastic bottles is that factories can use less water and chemical ingredients so that it can decrease the generation of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane.
What is rPET?
rPET or recycled polyester is a fabric that is commonly used in the textile and apparel industry to make fabrics for sportswear and fashion apparel. it is made from raw materials, such as recycled plastic water bottles. With the processes of cleaning and melting the existing plastic bottles/boxes, then spinning them back into new polyester fibers. These fibers are used to produce recycled polyester fabric.
How to make it?
1. The collected PET bottles are cleaned, dried, and chopped into small chips.
2. Chips are melted and go across to a spin machine back into new fiber.
3. The new fiber is knitted or woven into fabric.
4. Fabric is moved forward to dye and sew with eco-friendly processes.
Can I Have Recycled Polyester Printed?
The answer is YES!
Conclusion
Recycled polyester has the exact same properties as conventionally manufactured polyester.
RPET produces a smaller carbon footprint and also contributes to a reduction in plastic waste.
So why not?
This is one among the different solution we can provide to our clients in order to increase their green/environmental standard.
Choosing Blink as a business partner you can also provide to your client a range of products made with sustainable materials. We joined and support environmental campaigns and networks who are worldwide struggling against plastic pollution.
Our chain of suppliers gave us the possibility of increase our business opportunity meantime we were fighting against the proliferation of plastic in our Oceans.