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Waste plastics will become the best raw materials for textiles in the future

Industry News > Waste plastics will become the best raw materials for textiles in the future

As the public's awareness of environmental protection has been widely promoted, people have begun to pay attention to the environmental problems caused by the massive use of plastic.With the rise of fast fashion, the life span of clothing is getting shorter and shorter, bringing a heavy burden to the earth.

In recent years, plastic waste recycling technology has made a breakthrough, in addition to recycling plastic products, can also be recycled into yarn.Waste plastic and clothing can even be recycled together into fiberplastic sheets.

International brands are beginning to enter the road of sustainable development of environmental protection, regeneration

Decathlon, a French sportswear chain, has been facing a problem with a large number of plastic hangers falling into disuse.

In order to save the manpower and time of store goods, Decathlon will hang clothes hanger directly in the garment factory.Generally speaking, the coat hanger left after the commodity is sold, it is to be carried back to the factory to be reused, but because part area has shop only and did not have a factory, can let a ton of coat hanger become scrap every year only.

Decathlon is very serious about environmental sustainability. The brand wants waste not only to be recycled and incinerated, but also recycled.So recently found dafeng environmental protection company to help recycling.

To ensure the quality and durability of recycled materials, the plastic needs to be of a single variety, but decathlon uses three or four kinds of hangers, which contain different plastic materials or other additives, so sorting them is the biggest difficulty.

Xu Chengyu, research and development manager of the recycling department of Dafeng Environmental Protection Company, explained that the basic skill of recycling economy is that the quality of plastic recycled materials must meet the requirements of the industry. It sounds simple, but every procedure is necessary, from the cleaning and crushing process, to the training of personnel classification, to the certification of recycled materials.

After dafeng environmental Protection assisted Decathlon to establish the classification mechanism, the waste hangers were successfully made into shopping bags, and these shopping bags can be returned to the recycling system if they are no longer used in the future.

Three years ago, a team of more than 150 materials scientists and engineers set out to find a "sustainable, environmentally friendly building block" solution for Lego.

One of the biggest challenges in the Lego Group's sustainability journey is to find new materials that can be made as strong and durable as the existing bricks and match the lego elements that have been built over the past 60 years.

Over the past three years, they have tested more than 250 PET materials and hundreds of plastics, but none have met Lego's stringent quality and safety requirements.Some people are skeptical about the safety of the bricks, but in fact, Lego is very strict about the safety of its products.

For those made from recycled plastic, the researchers used special composite techniques to combine recycled PET with "reinforcing additives" to give it enough hardness and durability.On average, a litre of PET plastic bottles can be used to make 10 2 x 4 Lego bricks.

The special building block is not yet commercially available, but it will take some time for the researchers to test it and upgrade the formula before assessing whether it can go into pre-production.At the moment, it is still at least a year away.

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Waste plastics will become the best raw materials for textiles in the future

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