3 R's Landfills

Plastic Fantastic

Polyester

How are the recycled bottles able to be created into your years trending outfits?

Did you realise that all the plastic bottles you’ve put away can be made into material?. The journey that the plastic bottles go on is complex and dangerous.

First we will chuck all or rubbish that belongs into the recycling bin away. Then that truck will pick it up and take it to the factory,where the recycles would be sorted into different plastic groups. The bottles would be shredded just to release the leftover liquids inside . The bottles will then will be wrapped up and sent round the world to China . It might be rubbish to us but to the chinese it’s valuable.

Now the plastics are in China,they are again to be sorted to separate the clear bits from the coloured. The material that it will be turned into can be dyed,which is why they need clear plastics.They need to be washed,there’s a separate bath for getting rid of the stickers . The workers have to be careful because it’s a caustic soda and bad for the skin.The stickers will come out in this bowl and out the other side come the way,and because the plastics are wet still they will be put into an oven at to be dried for 10 hours . Because it’s hard to change bits of plastic straight into material,the bits of plastic will be tipped into a rotating screw where it’s heated up to 270 degrees.The plastic bottles are made into thread as it exited the big rotating heated screw and is stretched a lot the shredded again and the fluff is boxed up and then sent to another factory.

Here at this factory is where we turn the fluff back into thread .But it’s not all done yet,we now have to stretch the thread to stick it all together. People may think that this is now ready but now we have to soften the thread/material and heat it...now you can feel the material and it’ll feel like a light and fluffy bear.At this point this is when they spread the mateiral across a table and trace a template in a siutable spot where the white material can’t be wasted,because ‘your rubbish they don’t want to create’. Here when they have finished tracing the templates they will cut it and put it away waiting for the rest.So now all the material is made and is traced and cut it out,they send their hard work over to a stylist to create your clothing.

Your recycled plastic bottles don’t all stop at the dump like most of the different rubbishes.They go on a long complex journey and then you’ll reuse them,it’s all part of the ‘recycle,reduce,reuse’ saying.Isn’t it cool that your recycled bottles can be created into your clothing.