I am on The journey overnight from New York to Frankfurt, Germany, and Accountrements granted to me in the business degree has a sustainable shine. Both polyester blankets and the polyester group proudly claim that it is made of fabric from recycled plastic bottles.
But United Airways does not come to recyclable bottles So Yesterday’s green materials? No, the new hot technology is recycling Polyester In polyester. I am on my way to monitor the most sensitive innovation in this prosperous field, which is a chemical recycling process by a new startup, Rego.
Just half an hour after the center of Frankfurt in the DRAB industrial park is the temporary Reju office and three buildings made of half of which will serve as its industrial operations. In the middle it will be research, development and education, to the right is toPlu -mail, and to the left it will be RepeatPlurade.
Plastic, including polyester, is formed by taking individual chemicals called monomeria and forming in chains to create polymers. Basically, the Reju process breaks the polyester into chemicals composed (removal of the polymerization) and then restore it in a chain again (re -polymerarch).
I canceled in a solid hat, jacket, safety glasses, and sports shoes, along with half a scale of other journalists and influencers who see them inside the malera removal factory, where magic occurs. (Reju hosted me on this trip and covered my travel costs.) Silver Pipes Snake everywhere in small silos, and from our point of view on the ground floor, we can search through metal networks and with courage from panels and channels to the top of the four -storey building. Men wander around the jeans and high -vision jackets in the factory, terrifying the display with the settings on different pieces of machines, and called the German language to each other.
As I mentioned before, the fashion industry is not satisfied with the current polyester recycling model. Only 0.3 per cent of the materials used in fashion is one of its recycled sourcesAnd from this, it is all the water bottles to a large extent.
As you can see, the polyester is exactly the same pets used in water bottles, only in a different form (threads instead of a bottle). The recycling of pets mechanically-which bends and reuniting it-is not perfect, because the process degrades the quality of plastic, which makes it less flexible and highly performance. It also requires a pure, non -pure pet, with a transparent plastic bottle is Paragon. Polyester textiles are never pure polyester.
The most common mixture of materials you will find in old clothes is 70 percent of the polyester, and 30 percent of cotton. “But when you enter into the details, it is actually 60 percent of the pets, 5 percent of the dyes, and 2 percent of the elastin, perhaps a little nylon. Who knows?” Says Anthony Mirata, chief technology official in Rego, he is preparing for us to walk across the factory.
My previous report showed that the polyester can also contain millions such as BPA, minerals such as Antimon, toxic PFAs, and unwanted pollutants that I picked up while moving around the world through factories, warehouses and container ships. This is why we feed on millions of clear food water bottles in recycling plants, while throwing old polyester clothes in waste burials.