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You could be wearing clothing made of recycled polyester without even knowing it! Chances are high that you own fleece, pyjamas or sports tops made with fabric recycled from plastic waste, often known as recycled PET (rPET). Recycled PET has become an extremely versatile fabric material designed to make clothing soft yet water resistant - the ideal material to build soft yet durable clothing pieces from!
Fashionably speaking, PET fabric can be found everywhere from clothing and shoes to curtains and upholstery. Its use has become particularly widespread among outdoor apparel and accessories due to its lightweight, breathable and waterproof qualities; especially popular as outdoor gear! Additionally, production requires 50% less energy compared to virgin PET and produces half as many greenhouse gas emissions.
Commonly, fabric made from post-consumer plastic waste derived from crude oil sources (Pet bottles) is transformed into polyester fabrics to reduce plastic pollution in landfills and the ocean; recycling saves precious landfill space while saving up to 8 water bottles from being dumped away as toxic debris. One ton of recycled polyester can save 7.4 cubic yards in landfill space as well as eight water bottles from being thrown out into our environment.
Manufacturers can create rPET through either mechanical or chemical recycling processes, with mechanical recycling typically producing shorter fibre lengths that reduce strength in finished textile products; this issue can often be remedied by mixing it with natural fibres, spandex or nylon fibers for blending purposes. Chemical recycling produces longer fibre lengths which contribute towards creating truly circular products - "cradle-to-cradle".
Recycled polyester may have some environmental advantages, but it's important to keep in mind that its environmental advantages don't make it the ultimate solution. While recycled polyester helps limit plastic waste entering our oceans, it doesn't offer an effective long-term solution to microplastic pollution which has become a serious health threat due to marine life eating microplastics and in turn poisoning them causing suffering and illness in many forms. Only about 9 percent of plastic is currently recycled with most ending up either in landfills or the ocean where it could harm wildlife despite taking centuries or centuries for dissolution to occur.
Still, rPET use is an enormous step towards sustainability and can help us save our planet from further devastation.
Dutch Velvet Sofa Pillow Recycled Fabric
