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Title: Don't drink and dress !!!...(Plastic bottles make clothes !!)
Post by: neilep on 30/09/2007 18:55:48

Dearest all,

How do they turn these ?

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into this ?

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Did ewe know that plastic bottles becomes clothes ?..I didn't !!

How do they do that ?...

Don't keep that info bottled up...!!...I won't be attired of your answers !! (LOL....sorry...humour is getting worse !!..but.....ewe luff it really !!....don't ya ?)

Title: Don't drink and dress !!!...(Plastic bottles make clothes !!)
Post by: Karen W. on 01/10/2007 05:44:33

Yes indeedy we do!

I do believe a lot of synthetics are made from recycled plastics!

They make tons of things like this!

There are all types of plastic fabrics like PV fabrics and PC fabrics. Also exports table tops, shopping bags, table mats, caps and knitted garments.
Lots of sports wear and swim wear and others..
I believe it is combined with cottons as well as other fabrics.

Title: Re: Don't drink and dress !!!...(Plastic bottles make clothes !!)
Post by: Monox D. I-Fly on 04/11/2020 03:41:59

Hmmm... So, one of my unused water bottles may end up as someone's bra or panties... Interesting...

Title: Re: Don't drink and dress !!!...(Plastic bottles make clothes !!)
Post by: NakedTruth on 11/11/2020 09:28:34

This summer I saw, that here in Austria there were made bathing suits and bathing pants (for men & women) out of straws from Mc Donalds. Bc they wanted to quit the plastic straw production at Mc Donalds. But as this was only a limited edition I guess that not many people got the striped bathing wardrobe ;)

Title: Re: Don't drink and dress !!!...(Plastic bottles make clothes !!)
Post by: Monox D. I-Fly on 12/11/2020 01:56:39

Quote from: NakedTruth on 11/11/2020 09:28:34

This summer I saw, that here in Austria there were made bathing suits and bathing pants (for men & women) out of straws from Mc Donalds. Bc they wanted to quit the plastic straw production at Mc Donalds. But as this was only a limited edition I guess that not many people got the striped bathing wardrobe ;)

Ah, so they will get bathing clothes which have been kissed by other people when they were straws...

Title: Re: Don't drink and dress !!!...(Plastic bottles make clothes !!)
Post by: Petrochemicals on 13/11/2020 19:51:59

If plastics degrade to microplastics that corrupt biological processes,  fine plastics like thread degrade the quickest. I wonder how much microplastic discharge comes off a polyester t shirt per year ?

Title: Re: Don't drink and dress !!!...(Plastic bottles make clothes !!)
Post by: wolfekeeper on 24/11/2020 17:15:27

Loads. No pun intended. Very roughly a couple of hundred milligrams which is about a million microfibres per kg of washed clothes, and that's each wash.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-43023-x