19/06/2019 – Sustainability
“We need to get into chemistry”
How would it be if a PET bottle that had been recycled into fibres were then to re-emerge successively as different types of clothing?
‘Daughter’ and ‘grandson’ of the PET bottle: rainwear and T-shirt © Carl Weiske
PET bottles are turned into polyethylene fibres whose first textile use is as protective rainwear … after which they are recycled again into T-shirts. © Carl Weiske
A textiles man with a weakness for chemistry: Company Director Thomas Weiske © Carl Weiske
‘Daughter’ and ‘grandson’ of the PET bottle: rainwear and T-shirt © Carl Weiske