This is a great idea to keep the plastic out of landfills and oceans. Maybe you could convince the fur-wearers to convert to fashion plastic ecological clothing! I love it! Let us promote this and encourage more recycling of plastic. Congratulations to the innovators!!!
@@bqgin To some extent yes, but recycling of plastics by turning them into useful garments and therefore prolonging their lyfecycles is better than throwing them in landfills
you probably don't want that as they will make new plastic to supply their need and than it comes back all over again. Discarded clothes doesn't get recycled as often because it's less material(and way more weight) than just pure plastic bottles, so some places use the clothes for other recycling areas, rags, and such other things, but clothes does get recycled back into plastics, just not as cost effective as just making new or getting bottles.
Peace… Shalom… Salam... Namaste and Thank You Everybody for educating people about recycling and All that you are doing for our Mother Earth 🙏🏻 😊 🌈 ✌ 🌷 ❤
Remember that this process can be done only once: ok, the bottle becomes a plastic dress, but when the dress needs to be thrown away, It can't be recycled anymore. We should avoid plastic at all and use infinite recycling materials as glass and metal
Poly clothes can and does get recycled back into plastic, it just costs more and a lot more weight so they probably chose to just recycle plastics or bottles instead, you can carry 4 trucks worth of plastic bottles that consume less gas that will create more product than 4 trucks of polyester clothes that will consume way more gas and space.
@@gymnastic8428 Cotton doesn't get recycled as often because it becomes lower quality, so they will have to blend it with new cotton, that is how you see "blend cottons" That was someone's old shirt or underwwear you are wearing lol
+NARFALICIOUS shouldn't even be produced in the first place as the energy is wasted in the recycling process not to mention the waste waters and the transportation. The landfills and waters are clogged with plastic. There are many alternatives.
That's an amazing process.. But use it properly, and be aware about our health. Well, i feel bad for those worker.. hopely they get something worth in return.
Actually more effort and energy would be required to make the clothes without the bottles. Recycling just reincorporates the source material back into the chain. Without the bottles, polyester would still need to be made from coal, petroleum, water and air. So this is a good thing because the source materials are serving a dual or triple purpose: packaging and clothing, then, the same fabric can be recycled into different garments.
@@bluefernlove that's a good explanation. Wasn't aware of that side of chemistry and chemical stuff. So it means, it is still less costly than making polyester from original raw materials. "Donate" or discard old scrap, reduce useless clutter in our homes, indirectly help save Earth's natural resources being plundered till there is none. Wonder if I have got this 'recycling' meaning right.
Polyester is now being rebranded as “performance” fabric. I wish apparel companies would be honest and say “polyester is plastic. And we’d rather use recycled soda bottles to make clothes instead of growing cotton.”
just so you know. cotton is also dangerous for our environment. the production process requires TONS of water. you may be surprised to learn that a single pair of jeans requires 10000 liters of water. because of this, what was once the 5th largest lake in the world is not a struggling river.
Amazing Plastic Recycling video, the machinery and health and safety cost for this set up must be immense:) #plasticrecycling Any one know when this was recorded?
I know to work reciclying plastic is not the best thing, but this video is amazing! Could you imagine that soda's bottles could be a blouse? That's really amazing solution! It's not the final solution, but it's better than throw away in the garbage!
It's called slave labor. They are where we were during the industrial revolution. They are worked rediculous hours for low wages and pour benefits. They don't have all the safety and regulations, benefit packages we enjoy in America. They either work under cruel conditions or be replaced. So yes they are hard workers. All so your big brand companies can get it cheaper and sell it to us for more. It's a sad world we live in which the rich most certainly oppress the poor.
@@kingleo1128 when the market has alot of work force the wages reduce, its like the thing costs more if it is rare but cost less if it is abundant. Same is with china, if laboutlr doesnr work at low wage they can be easily replaced so they work at cheap wages, but in US the labour is expensive because of low work force in US.
+PanAsia Tech (HK) Limited Now you can enter the recycling business, online: recyclix.com/?id=cbef5b19d3e64a You invest in waste, they, process it, sell and gives you 12 % monthly.
Noticed that the workers in the Chinese factory had better personal protective equipment (including respiratory filter masks) than in other places (including both in this video and in another video about recycling plastic bags in India). Not necessarily enough, but at least better than the nothing or near-nothing that the other workers had.
Ok recycling is good and the plastic bottles recycles to polyester but this is end of the line. The polyester clothing don't recycle anymore so the cycle is broken... In the end plastic does get to waste...
Even if they are recycled, polyester has been negatively effecting coastlines. www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2014/oct/27/toxic-plastic-synthetic-microscopic-oceans-microbeads-microfibers-food-chain
when a star reaches the end of it's life cycle and burns through all it's fuel, right before it collapses, the last two elements will be polyester, then iron.
The article mentions that 85% of the human-made material found on the shoreline were microfibers, and matched the types of material, such as nylon and acrylic, used in clothing.
It would not be easier to separate bottles by colour before crushing them, then, the poor workers would not have to sort the tiny pieces out, and will avoid for them to breathing the toxic chemical...
Actually, technology is much more advanced than you think and there's separating machine could detect the color and separate it automatically without manpower. The whole cleaning line is highly automatic.
What they left out is how this is done by families, with kids as young as 3 working to sort the plastic, breathing toxic fumes and not being able to afford school or proper food on the little money they make.
@@RaddyMadi in the middle of all this "serious" business of saving the earth by recycling, I couldn't help enjoying the "humour" of the comment! Laughter is the best medicine?!
You people can never be please with anything...jesus christ..if they dont recycle: you people cries: if they do: you people cries..what tf you people want ?
This is a fantastic idea, but I actually wonder how expensive it is to recycle because it looks like a very involved process and that’s my only concern. brilliant video though congratulations it’s a great idea
And the fact that it doesn't let your skin breath the same way cotton does, AND the fact that your body odor will be stronger from plastic clothing compared to natural fabrics like cotton.
Most inefficient way i have seen, this could have been way more automatic, so the workers don't hurt their backs. E.g, the shredder at 0:55 could be put over the container and at 3:06 they could use a conveyor belt.
yeah and the conveyor belt that separated the lids and wrappers could have just gone down so there instantly separated as the clear on doesn't float the colored ones than could have been put into bins and turned into microplastic roads
Its great they're recycling but aren't they using fossil fuels to breakdown the plastic bottles then ship it, then process it? How much are the finished products? Is this cost effective?
MrJohnmcconnach: The majority of the country runs on coal fired plants. They have very few hydro-electric plants. 17% of their power is from renewable resources, according to wikipedia.
+kokonat poknat Pet bottles are made of polyethylenterephtalat .. its a polymere with an ester bond, probaly that is why the call the material "poly-ester".. while it is actually weird to call the cloth "poly-ester" and the bottles "PET"
"OK guys, here's that idea I was telling you about: what if, and hear me out on this... what if we take plastic bottles... and turn them into textiles that people can wear or use in their daily lives??" **silence** "Yeah, Dave, I think you're gonna need to spend some time in the looney bin there..."
@Diamondblade2008 no, not always. It could be made from oil products from the beginning? PET-bottles are mostly used to make fleece and such. The fabric is "rougher" than other. But it could still be. But if you look at those very very expensive outdoor and survival clothing, they use fleece-like fabric a lot! And those clothes are very often so expensive! But the recycling proces is expensive, yes, but not that expensive like that clothing.
Down vote. Poorly made video, it makes hazardous recycling (for both humans and the environment) look like its so safe. "To the Chinese textile industry this waste is a valuable commodity" LOL not in 2018 when it's banned from China. Hope the UK builds up its recycling infrastructure like a responsible country.
Is the lack of automation a deliberate move so as to keep up with their huge population demand for jobs or is it just lack a total lack of ethics, safety and care due to love of cheap labour.
turning plastic into polyester fabric is the most ethical and beneficial solution to our plastic problem. the only way to totally reduce non-biodegradable waste would be to completely phase it out, which is a very gradual and slow process.
I doubt this is profitable. Advertisers have a weird way of making themselves look like they are doing "good", when in fact, they are only lessening the "blow" of something evil or bad. Sure, we can make clothes out of plastic bottles: so there is less trash on the ground. Wouldn't it be better to not have the trash on the ground or plastic bottles to begin with? Replace plastic bottle with disease. Oh, lots of people have diseases, but our company is going to take the disease and make some other disease that is wearable for a little bit... It is sort of like the idea of taking a pill for something and the side effects end up causing lots of problems also. The people that make this plastic shirt/fabric will probably get cancer from the fumes and arthritis from hauling the shred all around. Some might get burnt from the caustic soda and some coal miners that mine the coal to fuel the factory will get black lung cancer/disease. And, the shirts are eventually going to get stained up, thrown away, or sit in a warehouse somewhere. Who knows? Maybe the ship transporting all the newly made shirts will get a leak and all the shirts will end up in the ocean as pollution. If the shirts weren't made, we wouldn't have that risk. No plastic bottles: no problem with needing to recycle bottles. Also, I will put it this way, which is how I make many of my decisions: Is the risk of cancer, pollution, annoyance of factory design, hiring of workers, handling labor, advertising, insurance risk, transportation and other logistic management, and all of the other work involved with making this shirt worth the reward of the finished product of the shirt? Will lots of customers love this shirt and feel that all of the work and hassle was worth it?
Heather Gleason supply and demand makes it profitable enough that shareholders are willing to invest billions of dollars into these industries. if it weren't profitable, shareholders wouldn't be investing, and the companies would have gone bankrupt a long time ago. or do you think there's some sort of conspiracy going on here?
+Heather Gleason Ugh, there s no way you can go back to that environment without plastic bottles. Do you have other options? I mean do you know how much people buy sport jersey? And yes, everyone loves their jersies and it doesn't get to be trashed, they can be sold on ebay People will still be down to wear second hand clothes.
+Heather Gleason America only recycles about 8 % plastic bottles of what they consume each year. If you don't recycle these bottles, it ends up in the ocean. In 2025, there would be 10 bags full of plastic per foot of coastline. What better waste management do we have? As a regular consumer of Sport Jersey, I am happy to know it is made this way.
I like how they're able to fit in the whole process of recycling plastic bottles, showing all of the stages into just 5 minutes.
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And I am replying to a 5 year old comment.
What the 6 years old comment 😮😮😮🤐🤐
@@anubhadas3129 I can do you one better, how about 7 years?
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Whats amazing is somebody desiged and built the machines to do this process
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waste management is going to be one of the biggest survival challenge in the future.
Wow! Why isn’t this done everywhere? Very amazing. I had no clue they could do that with plastic bottles.
thanks for posting, It is heartening to see such waste being re-used. Excellent video.
We need more factories like this!
Great project, high yield
Great video - pretty incredible to see the end result !
This is a great idea to keep the plastic out of landfills and oceans. Maybe you could convince the fur-wearers to convert to fashion plastic ecological clothing! I love it! Let us promote this and encourage more recycling of plastic. Congratulations to the innovators!!!
fur and leather are still more enviroment friendly than poliester faux fur
@@bqgin To some extent yes, but recycling of plastics by turning them into useful garments and therefore prolonging their lyfecycles is better than throwing them in landfills
you probably don't want that as they will make new plastic to supply their need and than it comes back all over again. Discarded clothes doesn't get recycled as often because it's less material(and way more weight) than just pure plastic bottles, so some places use the clothes for other recycling areas, rags, and such other things, but clothes does get recycled back into plastics, just not as cost effective as just making new or getting bottles.
Plastic ends up in the water system when you wash your polyester clothing
Peace… Shalom… Salam... Namaste and Thank You Everybody for educating people about recycling and All that you are doing for our Mother Earth 🙏🏻 😊 🌈 ✌ 🌷 ❤
So when someone tells you you're wearing garbage, don't get mad!
Lol
Came here for the exact comment :)))
My retarded brain damaged neighbor said the same thing.
POLYESTER CLOTHING IS GARBAGE WHETHER RECYCLED OR NOT.
greenpeace and wwf full of crap
SUPER educative. I recently started working in a recycling program in Puerto Rico and this was extremely helpful. Thank you.
Very interesting and informative - I did not know this at all :)
This is super useful for textiles homework thanks 😁
Nice video.Hope we can save our planet ,like these projects.
I LOVE seeing forward - earth saving stuff like this.
I am here in 2024.😄😄😄
How old are you now????
This is great way to recycle the plastics...
Thanks for sharing...
Thank you for publishing this video, I had learn many things about recycling plastic
Wow!! The first time i saw this, it blew my mind!
One man's trash is another man's treasure!
Your Video The rather complex process of converting used plastic bottles into useful polyester for the clothing industry Is Very Useful Sharing
So that's why when I slid across the basketball court in middle school, my pants simply melted.
??? tell me more lmao
What they said ^
Good this is very nice method of preserving waste
Remember that this process can be done only once: ok, the bottle becomes a plastic dress, but when the dress needs to be thrown away, It can't be recycled anymore. We should avoid plastic at all and use infinite recycling materials as glass and metal
u mean cotton ? for clothing
Poly clothes can and does get recycled back into plastic, it just costs more and a lot more weight so they probably chose to just recycle plastics or bottles instead, you can carry 4 trucks worth of plastic bottles that consume less gas that will create more product than 4 trucks of polyester clothes that will consume way more gas and space.
@@gymnastic8428 Cotton doesn't get recycled as often because it becomes lower quality, so they will have to blend it with new cotton, that is how you see "blend cottons" That was someone's old shirt or underwwear you are wearing lol
Thanks, this is awesome.
China is an amazing country in many different ways.
Everything should be recycled.
+NARFALICIOUS shouldn't even be produced in the first place as the energy is wasted in the recycling process not to mention the waste waters and the transportation. The landfills and waters are clogged with plastic. There are many alternatives.
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Even our brain yeah LOL !
Thanks for a great upload again Triwood !
That's an amazing process..
But use it properly, and be aware about our health.
Well, i feel bad for those worker.. hopely they get something worth in return.
this worker atrully don't get anything "worth in return" because this is not harmful to helth at all When compare to the cotton industry.
Amazing Plastic Recycling video. Thanks for sharing
I was not aware that recycling demands these ridiculous amount of energy / efforts, not using plastic would be ideal for protecting our planet.
Actually more effort and energy would be required to make the clothes without the bottles. Recycling just reincorporates the source material back into the chain. Without the bottles, polyester would still need to be made from coal, petroleum, water and air. So this is a good thing because the source materials are serving a dual or triple purpose: packaging and clothing, then, the same fabric can be recycled into different garments.
Makes more sense to stop using it at some point as single use.
@@bluefernlove that's a good explanation. Wasn't aware of that side of chemistry and chemical stuff. So it means, it is still less costly than making polyester from original raw materials. "Donate" or discard old scrap, reduce useless clutter in our homes, indirectly help save Earth's natural resources being plundered till there is none. Wonder if I have got this 'recycling' meaning right.
@@remaspiya3269 exactly! 😉
@@bluefernlove thanks! So I have passed .
Really very nice idea Great
regards
Polyester is now being rebranded as “performance” fabric.
I wish apparel companies would be honest and say “polyester is plastic. And we’d rather use recycled soda bottles to make clothes instead of growing cotton.”
thats really good Chris. I have customers who buy plastic for polyester production so I think thats a good way . lol
just so you know. cotton is also dangerous for our environment. the production process requires TONS of water. you may be surprised to learn that a single pair of jeans requires 10000 liters of water. because of this, what was once the 5th largest lake in the world is not a struggling river.
@@tylerwilliams690 which lake?
@@tylerwilliams690polyester releases microplastic...cotton is still better...plus hemp clothing is much better
Very informative and interesting. Thank you for sharing.
Amazing Plastic Recycling video, the machinery and health and safety cost for this set up must be immense:) #plasticrecycling Any one know when this was recorded?
do you need the plastic color sorting machine to separate the mixed-color plastic ?
Great project, high yield
Great project, high yield
I know to work reciclying plastic is not the best thing, but this video is amazing!
Could you imagine that soda's bottles could be a blouse?
That's really amazing solution!
It's not the final solution, but it's better than throw away in the garbage!
أين مكان هذا المصنع اريد الشراء منه
Chinese people are very hard working people
Rajah SanGa yup
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Yes productivity of Chinese people are comparatively more,
This is one of the main reason why they can manufacturers goods at low cost
It's called slave labor. They are where we were during the industrial revolution. They are worked rediculous hours for low wages and pour benefits. They don't have all the safety and regulations, benefit packages we enjoy in America. They either work under cruel conditions or be replaced. So yes they are hard workers. All so your big brand companies can get it cheaper and sell it to us for more. It's a sad world we live in which the rich most certainly oppress the poor.
@@kingleo1128 when the market has alot of work force the wages reduce, its like the thing costs more if it is rare but cost less if it is abundant. Same is with china, if laboutlr doesnr work at low wage they can be easily replaced so they work at cheap wages, but in US the labour is expensive because of low work force in US.
And...every country should do this!
Have there been any significant developments to this process since you posted this video in 2009? Would love to know more.
+PanAsia Tech (HK) Limited Now you can enter the recycling business, online: recyclix.com/?id=cbef5b19d3e64a You invest in waste, they, process it, sell and gives you 12 % monthly.
+MrPerfectInternet Please let me know where we can ship you our processed plastic waste.
@@PanasiaexportsHK whats it is cloth polyester waste?
Wow very nice !!! Well done
Wow, this is incredibly interesting. I'm really amazed
wow amazing 😮 from plastic bottle to polyester
Noticed that the workers in the Chinese factory had better personal protective equipment (including respiratory filter masks) than in other places (including both in this video and in another video about recycling plastic bags in India). Not necessarily enough, but at least better than the nothing or near-nothing that the other workers had.
Duh white boy, these 2 totally diff cultures…..just like how white people like to kill and little kids for no reason
I LEARND A LOT FROM THIS
i wanna be the guy that moves the cart back and forth all day catching dried plastic.
ScotSpeed 2eeee
Why?
Easy job
You wanna get paid $2 an hour too?
$2 an hour is too generous. It's more like $2 a day.
Another great upload, great.
I always wondered how Plumbuses got made
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What is the cost of this machine?
@@gonsalezjilles4960 nnmb
First they take the dinglebop, then they smooth it out, with a bunch of schleem
The touch, the feel of plastic...the fabric of our lives.
Ok recycling is good and the plastic bottles recycles to polyester but this is end of the line. The polyester clothing don't recycle anymore so the cycle is broken... In the end plastic does get to waste...
Even if they are recycled, polyester has been negatively effecting coastlines. www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2014/oct/27/toxic-plastic-synthetic-microscopic-oceans-microbeads-microfibers-food-chain
when a star reaches the end of it's life cycle and burns through all it's fuel, right before it collapses, the last two elements will be polyester, then iron.
***** Your point?
The article mentions that 85% of the human-made material found on the shoreline were microfibers, and matched the types of material, such as nylon and acrylic, used in clothing.
does it even matter? you got another use out of old plastic. I day that's a success right there
Very informative, educational.
It would not be easier to separate bottles by colour before crushing them, then, the poor workers would not have to sort the tiny pieces out, and will avoid for them to breathing the toxic chemical...
Actually, technology is much more advanced than you think and there's separating machine could detect the color and separate it automatically without manpower. The whole cleaning line is highly automatic.
I had a project and it will be useful for me .. thank u
Filming a Chinese factory without showing any children. Now, that's amazing!
Amazing, i never knew it that a plastic can be a textiles.. Im soo amazed 😆
what may be total capital investment in this whole process>?
Not less than a Million dollars...
Suraj Ghimire 10000000 rs bhai lagta hai use kam nhi
1dozen millon dollah
What they left out is how this is done by families, with kids as young as 3 working to sort the plastic, breathing toxic fumes and not being able to afford school or proper food on the little money they make.
Okay, now turn the jersey back into plastic bottles.
That's easy, just rewind the video
Madison Snively 😂
hahaha
@@RaddyMadi in the middle of all this "serious" business of saving the earth by recycling, I couldn't help enjoying the "humour" of the comment! Laughter is the best medicine?!
@@RaddyMadi 😉😂🕺
I am totally fascinating by this. I would love to work there for a few months just to see how they recycle all those things
You don't want to work here friend...
Forgot the part where the chemicals are flushed into the local river
Same thing happens at paper mills
You people can never be please with anything...jesus christ..if they dont recycle: you people cries: if they do: you people cries..what tf you people want ?
No Names No Recycle and don’t dump chemical waste into local rivers. Although not all factories do this.
This is a fantastic idea, but I actually wonder how expensive it is to recycle because it looks like a very involved process and that’s my only concern. brilliant video though congratulations it’s a great idea
Protecting the earth,we have resposibility
Like yoda, you speak
Amazed too see how the plastic waste is converted into daily usage clothes
So that explains the static reaction when wearing polyester when handling certain things 🤔
And the fact that it doesn't let your skin breath the same way cotton does, AND the fact that your body odor will be stronger from plastic clothing compared to natural fabrics like cotton.
where from we get such machinary for business Great Job for destroying plastic botle
But can they turn the polyester shirt to plastic bottle again!!? That would be amazing!
They don't don't even recycle water bottles into water bottles. That's almost always virgin plastic.
Excellent job
Wow, this is horrible, and it makes me feel bad. 😢
Well what do you know. Great video and now I know where my fleece came from hahaha
hi, we make bags from these materials.
francesco
These vedio was interesting I came to no now that from plastic bottles our clothes are also made
Most inefficient way i have seen, this could have been way more automatic, so the workers don't hurt their backs. E.g, the shredder at 0:55 could be put over the container and at 3:06 they could use a conveyor belt.
yeah and the conveyor belt that separated the lids and wrappers could have just gone down so there instantly separated as the clear on doesn't float the colored ones than could have been put into bins and turned into microplastic roads
This video was very helpful.
Plus, you get 5 cents it's worth recycling. C:
Not in my state. Also you paid that 5 cents when you purchased the bottle, so you're really just getting it back.
you get 10 cents here in Michigan for returned bottles
These first line handlers should be highly paid
Anyone here from school?
Bit late but yh
Same
Very nice and I m interested i liked
You can tell how old this documentary is China don't take our plastics anymore
That's what we want. Hopefully every country do the same thing
Its great they're recycling but aren't they using fossil fuels to breakdown the plastic bottles then ship it, then process it? How much are the finished products? Is this cost effective?
MrJohnmcconnach: The majority of the country runs on coal fired plants. They have very few hydro-electric plants. 17% of their power is from renewable resources, according to wikipedia.
This is not. It's much more efficient to produce polyester from fossil fuels.
Obviously the finances work out or they WOULD NOT BE DOING IT! Damn!
This is why I love Chinese ppl.. so resourceful
wow, educational, I never thought that polyester is made of plastic
+kokonat poknat Pet bottles are made of polyethylenterephtalat .. its a polymere with an ester bond, probaly that is why the call the material "poly-ester".. while it is actually weird to call the cloth "poly-ester" and the bottles "PET"
Polyesters ARE plastics. Polyethylene, whose recycling is shown in the video, is one example of a polyester.
Very useful and informative for DT hw thank you 👍
"OK guys, here's that idea I was telling you about: what if, and hear me out on this... what if we take plastic bottles... and turn them into textiles that people can wear or use in their daily lives??"
**silence**
"Yeah, Dave, I think you're gonna need to spend some time in the looney bin there..."
@Diamondblade2008 no, not always. It could be made from oil products from the beginning? PET-bottles are mostly used to make fleece and such. The fabric is "rougher" than other. But it could still be. But if you look at those very very expensive outdoor and survival clothing, they use fleece-like fabric a lot! And those clothes are very often so expensive! But the recycling proces is expensive, yes, but not that expensive like that clothing.
wait a minute your telling me POLYESTER IS PLASTIC
+i'm an ultrastarwarrior Duh!
+i'm an ultrastarwarrior its in the name, like polypropelene and polystyrene... if it starts poly, its probably plastic based
+Szczecin
Wow dude he act so surprised
well because I thought that was impossible
Wow, impressive how they do a lot of thing that crazy....
No more, China has plenty of plastic of their own. They do not need ours
fantastic this project. I like it
Whoever filmed this did an awesome job of hiding the Chinese worker's leg irons.
Wonderful process to reuse this never-ending T T resource. Does anyone know what they do with the plastic of all different colors?
Down vote. Poorly made video, it makes hazardous recycling (for both humans and the environment) look like its so safe. "To the Chinese textile industry this waste is a valuable commodity" LOL not in 2018 when it's banned from China. Hope the UK builds up its recycling infrastructure like a responsible country.
Is the lack of automation a deliberate move so as to keep up with their huge population demand for jobs or is it just lack a total lack of ethics, safety and care due to love of cheap labour.
incredible manufacturing process.
Any thoughts for me, or any possible advice, I greatly appreciate.
I open polyester fiber bales at my work lol... the fiber is used to fill pillows, backs, and arms for your living room furniture.
and then bits of that fibre end up in our oceans as we wash these clothes, making our marine life sick.
turning plastic into polyester fabric is the most ethical and beneficial solution to our plastic problem. the only way to totally reduce non-biodegradable waste would be to completely phase it out, which is a very gradual and slow process.
of course,tons of it.
You just can't win...
Yes, not to mention all the chemicals that are added to the cloth in the process.
Absolutely amazing!!!
wait, recycling is real?
Now that's how we wear our own wastes! 😮
Homework :(
same
What's your project?
That's funny. I'm an adult and I watched this because it's interesting to see how things are done in other industries :D
Good insightful videos.
I doubt this is profitable. Advertisers have a weird way of making themselves look like they are doing "good", when in fact, they are only lessening the "blow" of something evil or bad. Sure, we can make clothes out of plastic bottles: so there is less trash on the ground. Wouldn't it be better to not have the trash on the ground or plastic bottles to begin with?
Replace plastic bottle with disease. Oh, lots of people have diseases, but our company is going to take the disease and make some other disease that is wearable for a little bit... It is sort of like the idea of taking a pill for something and the side effects end up causing lots of problems also. The people that make this plastic shirt/fabric will probably get cancer from the fumes and arthritis from hauling the shred all around. Some might get burnt from the caustic soda and some coal miners that mine the coal to fuel the factory will get black lung cancer/disease. And, the shirts are eventually going to get stained up, thrown away, or sit in a warehouse somewhere. Who knows? Maybe the ship transporting all the newly made shirts will get a leak and all the shirts will end up in the ocean as pollution. If the shirts weren't made, we wouldn't have that risk. No plastic bottles: no problem with needing to recycle bottles.
Also, I will put it this way, which is how I make many of my decisions: Is the risk of cancer, pollution, annoyance of factory design, hiring of workers, handling labor, advertising, insurance risk, transportation and other logistic management, and all of the other work involved with making this shirt worth the reward of the finished product of the shirt? Will lots of customers love this shirt and feel that all of the work and hassle was worth it?
Heather Gleason supply and demand makes it profitable enough that shareholders are willing to invest billions of dollars into these industries. if it weren't profitable, shareholders wouldn't be investing, and the companies would have gone bankrupt a long time ago. or do you think there's some sort of conspiracy going on here?
+Heather Gleason You still breathe the air the others exhaled out.
+Heather Gleason Ugh, there s no way you can go back to that environment without plastic bottles. Do you have other options? I mean do you know how much people buy sport jersey? And yes, everyone loves their jersies and it doesn't get to be trashed, they can be sold on ebay People will still be down to wear second hand clothes.
+Heather Gleason America only recycles about 8 % plastic bottles of what they consume each year. If you don't recycle these bottles, it ends up in the ocean. In 2025, there would be 10 bags full of plastic per foot of coastline. What better waste management do we have? As a regular consumer of Sport Jersey, I am happy to know it is made this way.
+Heather Gleason but then, where do we left the empty bottles? or what are we supposed to do with it to hurt less the enviorment?
Nice work