Your old plastic bottle … reborn as a towel, bag or swimsuit
by Rebecca Smithers from on (#3VRHX)
As technology finds innovative ways to recycle, waste products are being used in an unlikely range of goods in high street stores
First it was "bags for life", chunky doormats and, more recently, clothing such as fleeces, swimwear and pack-away macs. Now towels made from recycled plastic bottles are to go on sale in the UK for the first time in August - the latest initiative in the war against single-use plastics and the result of a technological breakthrough that has produced a fabric deemed soft and fluffy enough to use on human skin.
The new range of eco-friendly bath towels will go on sale online and at 18 branches of John Lewis in the last week of August, after nearly two years of extensive testing and work with suppliers. The polyester from the recycled plastic bottles accounts for 35% of their content, while the rest is regenerated cotton.
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