I am on one The overnight flight from New York to Frankfurt, Germany and the highlights were given to me in the business class with a sustainable light. Both polyester blankets and polyester flying kits are proud that they are made of recycled plastic bottles.
But it does not consolidate the airlines to know that recycling bottles are Therefore Green material of yesterday? No, hot and inflated technology is recycling polyester Go to polyester. And I am on my way to observe the best capitalization innovation in this developing field, a chemical recycling process of a new startup company, Renu.
Only half an hour outside the center of Frankfurt city in a dull industrial park is Reju's temporary office and three half -construction buildings will act as industrial activity. In the middle will be R&D and education, the right is belong toCoincidental factory, and on the left will be dribCoincidental factory.
PlasticIncluding polyester, formed by using individual chemicals called monomers and forming them into a chain to create polymers. Basically, Reju's process breaks polyester into its constituent chemicals (reducing polymers) and then places it back together in a series again (reconstructed).
I fits a hard hat, a vest, a safety glass and a sports shoes, along with half a dozen journalists and other influential people to see the inside of the polymers, where the miracle happens. . The head of the four -storey building. Men wearing jeans and vest are capable of considering tall trees, caring for settings on many different movements, calling German with each other.
As I have reported before, the fashion industry dissatisfied With the current polyester recycling model. Only 0.3 percent of material used in fashion is from recycling sourcesAnd about that, it was quite a lot of water bottles.
You see, polyester is exactly the same as pet plastic used in water bottles, only in another shape (only instead of bottles). Recycling PET mechanics, adjusting it down and eliminating it, not ideal, because this process reduces the quality of the plastic, makes it less comfortable and high performance. It also requires pure pet, not equipped, with transparent plastic bottles is Paragon. And polyester textiles are never pure polyester.
The most common blend of the materials you will find in old clothes is 70 percent of polyester, 30 percent of cotton. But when you go into details, it is really 60 percent of pets, 5 percent dyes, 2 percent of elastane, which can contain a little nylon. Who knows? “Antoni Maidata, a technology director at Reju, when he was about to walk through the factory.
My previous report has shown that polyester can also contain plasticizers like BPA, metal like antimon, toxic. PFAAnd many more undesirable pollutants it picked when it moved around the world through factories, warehouses and container ships. This is why we put millions of transparent food bottles into recycling plants, and pour old polyester clothes into landfills.