And washing this clothing puts tons of microplastics into the water supply. There is literally no end to the ways we are being poisoned by petrochemicals
And then sell them on consignment or donate to a thrift store. And while you’re there, shop for “new to you” quality clothing. Our problem is we get bored of quality clothing before it wears out.
@@lostvisitor solar cells and wind turbines are amongst some of the worst polluters on the planet, wind turbines at sea drop 300kg of plastic based resins from their blades every 3-5 years (thats an average of 60 tons every 3-5 years in the north sea) and solar panels are horrendously polluting to make and even worse for recycling
when are we going to stop pretending we all don't know the only reason why polyester clothing is so popular is because it's cheaper for the manufacturer, while sometimes selling as expensive as cotton and linen, and the rest is marketing?
@@zeusvalentine3638 fair trade and ecologically friendly cotton isn't cheap, but it is cheaper from an impact viewpoint than just about any other material.
There's also the fact that more than 75% of recycled plastic is unusable because the melting of the plastics destroys a lot of those polymer chains, which is why it can only be recycled so many times.
It’s funny because if they wanted to do something it would actually be very easy. I’m into banning single use plastic production btw. But if we insist on keeping this insane model… it’s simple you just mandate them to produce plastics only that can be easily recycled. I guess the clear plastics etc. etc. u get the point. There’s certain plastics that recycle very effectively. Hello, mcfly… just them make all plastics like that! None of this phony green bottle crap etc. but they will never even get that far. Nobody cares. All anybody cares about is corporate profit margins
This statement is too broad to be of any use. There are hundreds of types of plastics, of which degradation mechanisms can hardly be compared. As for PET, the amount of chain incisions during melting and re-extrusion is actually quite low, if done carefully, decrease in molecular weight is under 5%. For plastics like PET, these broken chains can also be 'repaired' fairly easy and economically using a process called Solid State Polymerization. The amount of times one can recycle PET is not limited by the "destroyed polymer chains", but mainly limited by contamination and discoloration, which is nearly impossible to remove during regular mechanical recycling.
Microplastics galore! Credit where credit is due, kudos to this team who figured out how to turn plastic waste into textile fibres but main issue is that plastic production is still increasing year by year and recycling it is a joke
I can appreciate the effort that went into building this facility, but they are certainly not the ones to start making fibers from waste PET 😂it's been done since the 70s
It's cheap for them, they can make cheap and toxic clothes and sell at ridiculously high prices. They pretend like they care for the nature but the only thing they care is their profits.
This is a fascinating process. But I've been seeing a lot of companies "green washing" and replacing cotton clothes with clothes made from recycled plastic. It's really annoying when you prefer cotton and dont want to pay luxury prices for something that used to be affordable.
Sustainable natural fiber fabrics were never affordable. If you got it for cheap then corners were cut somewhere. Cheap cotton is full of toxic chemicals and use cheap labor. Truth is people want to complain about sustainability but don't want to pay the cost for it.
Most people with negative comments don't realize they have been buying and wearing these clothes for years. Check the tags. If you buying anything besides 100% cotton you are buying plastic!
Being an Indian, my family never liked synthetic clothes. We have very few of them. We go for cottons , khadi , silk or linen. Even now cotton , khadi and silk has its own glory in india and people are coming back to it.
Same in my family. Seeing how many Indian companies are now putting literal waste plastic into clothes, I'm glad more and more people are returning to pure cotton. But there's still lots and lots of ignorant people who are using plastic and even wearing it now And half these clothes are being made for big brands. So likely lots of clueless consumers in the West, Japan and Korea are also wearing plastic, and increasingly Africa too. Sometimes I think the Arabs got lucky. Due to the amount of sanctions, they're basically forced to use and wear and eat only what is locally produced from traditional materials. That's going to save them in the long run
@@luxinvictus9018 It's not the fault of Indian companies. They are actually doing good by increasing the life span of those plastics which were going to harm us sooner.
The utter idiocy of people in this comment section not understanding that polyester is not just for garments. (Even though it is a major component for durability in some types of clothing). It is a very important material to make bag backs , shoes, tent equipment, sporting equipment, ropes etc where you need the durability of a polyester. Things that cotton can’t make. Not every thread is made to sleep in Also, cotton farming is an extremely water consuming activity. Even treating few meters of cotton can take up to 20L of water. Its not a magic fabric. Nothing is . Cotton and polyester can have their own purposes. It doesn’t need to be one or the other This company on to something big in their own right
natural, more environmentally friendly fabrics that resist wrinkles and don’t use a ton of chemicals and don’t leave micro plastics on the water: 1. Wool: Naturally wrinkle-resistant and cozy. 2. Silk: Wrinkles less and feels luxurious. 3. Hemp: Less wrinkly and eco-friendly. 4. Linen-Cotton Blends: Wrinkles less than pure linen. 5. Lyocell (Tencel): Made from wood pulp, eco-friendly, and resists wrinkles. 6. Organic Cotton with Natural Treatments: Look for GOTS-certified to keep chemicals low.
So instead of eliminating the use of plastic bottles... let's just make more money on top of it so that in the end we just end up using even more plastic...
Have fun trying to get to get whole world to stop using plastic bottles. At least these guys are trying to do something about the FACT that they exist, and they will keep being used
You think this company in India has the power to make everyone stop using plastic bottles? The plastic bottles are already out there. This company is just putting them to good use.
Tbh we need sustainable ways to make clothes. Both plastics and cottons are really unsustainable for mass use. Plastic sucks for microplastics and cotton sucks for the amount of water needed (aral sea)
Yes, very true. And the sustainable way is very simple... Stop over-consuming. Don't buy more than you need, don't buy new trends every season, and don't throw out clothes that are only one year old... Buy fewer but quality items that can last for a long time. Cotton isn't the only option, there are also other natural materials such as hemp. Look for sustainable clothing brands and what materials they're using, they might have found a natural material they can produce in a sustainable way in that area. Linen, silk and more.
what a about wool, relatively sustainable to source, doesn't stain, and is more durable. The solution to pollution and climate change is too source materials and foods naturally instead of ultra proccesing everything. We need to start working with what we got.
I will never forget when i was a kid and saved all year for a football shirt from my club, i had to wear a cotton shirt under as the shirt had polyester and was itchy and felt unconfortable. I love the ideia of recycling.
To everyone saying it's better to just leave the bottles to recycle into new ones, they get all their bottles from landfills and oceans, the bottles would have just sat there if they hadn't have grabbed it. 😊
Arent those the kind that makes you sweat muchmuch more compared to cotton or silk? But Good heavens the ammount of waste plastics they put to good use 👏👏👏👏👏
Getting people to separate waste to recycle items is a HUGE struggle in the USA. Recycling is not mandatory in many municipalities. And, when waste is set aside for recycling, they are not properly sorted.
This video was highly informative and entertaining. Extending the life of plastics is an admirable plan. I look forward to AI & Quantum Computing to find more ways to get rid of waste.
Don't. Microplastics poison the blood. Plastic is a toxic material, and that's why the the big companies promote the use of it in India, because people in the west have increasingly stopped using plastic Better to wear pure cotton like khadi. Plastic recycling is a scam. Recycled plastic is toxic.
the biggest quesiton - is where is there an American company turning into a mega-corporation doing this same issue with all of our waste plsatics and glass bottles as well ..... ????? !!!!
Oh no. Americans won't do anything. They will just lecture about this and that while polluting the whole world. They have car based cities, they consume God knows how many gallons of petroleum products, they drink sodas from plastic bottles instead of normal water, they need hundreds of plastic Stanley Cups because it's the latest Instagram trend, everything they eat has plastic in it, they want fancy plastic phones, they wear plastic jewellery, but wearing clothes with blended plastic fibre is where they draw the line. Funnily, all their athleisure (LuLu Lemon) wear has a tonne of plastic in it and they wear it to vulgarly stick their bum photos on Instagram for the whole world to see. They have the gall to criticize a company that is lessening the amount of waste in landfill while dumping their trash in poorer countries.
Companies that use plastic packaging need a better labeling method. Our local recycling rules are to remove labels from plastic before it’s recycled. It’s nearly impossible to get some labels off. I have noticed some brands starting to use “shrink wrap” type plastic film for labels, so they can be easily removed. But then THAT plastic goes in the trash while the bottle gets recycled. So idk…what’s worse?
As long as it is not possible to recycle the textiles this should be seen as a environment hazard. REMOVING recyclable material from recycling is idiotic.
Hi Business Insider, do you have a website with your research? I would love and like to make it as a Reference and citations for our research. Our topic is also aligned with plastics and waste management. Thank you☺
And yes I agree that we need to stop using plastic but as long as there are drinks in plastic bottles, You Tubers flogging dollar store crap decorating tips, and an entire population of people who won’t give up their convenience items (1st world problems) and many places that have no options-no access to garbage pick up/ recycling etc or even options of how their food is packaged…… Recycling ♻️ is the only option to try and save our planet. It’s easy to say stop using it. Try eliminating it completely from your own life. You can’t!! Saran Wrap, Tupperware, bowls, Most clothes have some, everything we own- cars, cameras, computers, phones I could go on. Most of these things could not be made without plastic.
I am suggesting to please expand their business here in the Philippines.plastic materials is one of the problem arising from growing population and businesses..
Lmao why can’t anybody see the good in what they’re doing? Nearly everyone is complaining about the microplastics and not how much waste they’re removing from the environment
You can't use recycled plastic in space technology. Most things that go into space require extremely hi tech parts which need to made from expensive allows and metals like gold, silicon and titanium. That's why they're so costly and expensive to make. Even clothes is not a good idea. People don't realise that plastic just isn't that good. It's low quality, toxic and hard to recycle. We'd be actually far better off using cotton, wood and leather
Why, because of polymer fiber clothing? "Declining fertility rates" are not the reason for the decline in neo-natality, it's people no longer affording to have children due to the ever increasing cost of living, among a lot of other reasons, none of them being that they are not fertile enough due to microplastics. Fertility is most likely just fine, but it takes more than just beimg "fertile" in order to have kids, you know...
Great! We have now delayed the problem with maybe a year or two as there's no way to recycle polyester clothing after. Don't get me wrong, this is better than not recycling plastic, but this is NOT the solution to the plastic problem. ... not to mention all the microplastic fibres these produce quicker than any other plastics.
Recycling is good but we have much better options of wearable fabrics made of various plant waste these days, polyester can be used for many other purposes than clothing.
It's not the recycling company that is bad. It's the one who invented plastic. Some of us here in our country are going back to old things like using bags or containers made of paper of coconut leaves. I wonder why these things were pasted out before. Could be for the plast industry to boom even more. And yes, I've read this somewhere, some scientist found microplastics in humans' blood. This could also be one of the cause why even if we exercise and eat healthily, we are still sickly compared to humans before.
How is plastic more sustainable then cotton? Not only that how and who is recycling those shoes after? Might as well use plastic where people already using plastic.
Everything seems to be great, but microplastics that are created every time such clothes are washed... I would like to find the answer to this question.
There is so much of this garbage clothing out there that literal shipping container ships full of “old” cloths are going to places like Chile. They have huge markets for reselling this clothing and whatever doesn’t sell was trucked to a dump site. This dumpsite in the Atacama Desert was around 59,000 tons of discarded clothing. Last year there was a wild fire in the clothing dump site that lasted weeks and sent toxic fumes to cities and towns nearby. Polyester isn’t sustainable by any measure.
This isn’t healthy. I recently tossed all my clothing made from polyester and synthetic materials (Lululemon, workout gear, etc.) and have been wearing 100% cotton or linen. My skin looks clearer. I’m glad to not have recycled plastic on my skin.
I'm glad these folks have come up with this technology; but there are easier ways to reduce our use of polyester. I don't buy fast fashion, it's too cheaply made; buy good quality stuff, use it longer, avoid the latest fashions. I can stand to wear a cotton/poly blend, but I avoid pure polyester clothing; it's not comfortable.
For those of you reading this comment, it's okay, it's normal to feel lonely sometimes, if you're going through tough times, keep trying, but never give up,
The problem is fast fashion fills our land fills even more than bottles.. so after recycling the bottles who will be recycling all the plastic shirts 👕 😅 And plastic has been used in fashion for years.. going back to the 1960s.. polyester and rayon blends got plastic
And washing this clothing puts tons of microplastics into the water supply. There is literally no end to the ways we are being poisoned by petrochemicals
you're right! we just have to continue to try to avoid single use plastic, so we at least avoid the production of virgin plastic too!
This is so horrible screw India
And not just in the water supply, but into the air in your home as well in the form of dust.
microplastics from clothes arent poisonous but they are bad for the ocean biome
@@gabbonoothey've found microplastic in balls of dudes with erectile dysfunction, so I think it's definitely poisonous
Best solution is to buy high quality clothes made from cotton, hemp fibre etc. and wear them as long as possible.
or just stop wearing cloths.
@@lostvisitorOr just stop being existing
@@Prashant_Pandey4 rise to a higher level and run on solar power.
And then sell them on consignment or donate to a thrift store. And while you’re there, shop for “new to you” quality clothing. Our problem is we get bored of quality clothing before it wears out.
@@lostvisitor solar cells and wind turbines are amongst some of the worst polluters on the planet, wind turbines at sea drop 300kg of plastic based resins from their blades every 3-5 years (thats an average of 60 tons every 3-5 years in the north sea) and solar panels are horrendously polluting to make and even worse for recycling
Am I the only one who dislikes polyester? It feels uncomfortable, makes you sweaty and smelly, and doesn't absorb water
@@IgorAlexeyM not at all! I hate all of my polyester clothing.
Cotton for life. Polyester is trash
No, I’m with you. I need natural fibers.
i hate the fact that polyester particles are in my blood and brain, and make up majority of the 240,000 pieces of plastic in a litre of drinking water
I can't wear anything but cotton. Polyester is crap. Smothering out bodies.
when are we going to stop pretending we all don't know the only reason why polyester clothing is so popular is because it's cheaper for the manufacturer, while sometimes selling as expensive as cotton and linen, and the rest is marketing?
cotton isn't very expensive.
When are people gonna realize all these plastic fibers will pollute our dirt, water, air and bodies
@zeusvalentine3638 it's expensive to educate the consumer why they should be buying natural fibers though
@@zeusvalentine3638 "as expensive as" understand the terms
@@zeusvalentine3638 fair trade and ecologically friendly cotton isn't cheap, but it is cheaper from an impact viewpoint than just about any other material.
There's also the fact that more than 75% of recycled plastic is unusable because the melting of the plastics destroys a lot of those polymer chains, which is why it can only be recycled so many times.
It’s funny because if they wanted to do something it would actually be very easy. I’m into banning single use plastic production btw. But if we insist on keeping this insane model… it’s simple you just mandate them to produce plastics only that can be easily recycled. I guess the clear plastics etc. etc. u get the point. There’s certain plastics that recycle very effectively. Hello, mcfly… just them make all plastics like that! None of this phony green bottle crap etc. but they will never even get that far. Nobody cares. All anybody cares about is corporate profit margins
It stains forever too 😅 Have you ever tried the clean Spaghetti out of a plastic bowl 😅That color never disappears 😅
This statement is too broad to be of any use. There are hundreds of types of plastics, of which degradation mechanisms can hardly be compared. As for PET, the amount of chain incisions during melting and re-extrusion is actually quite low, if done carefully, decrease in molecular weight is under 5%. For plastics like PET, these broken chains can also be 'repaired' fairly easy and economically using a process called Solid State Polymerization. The amount of times one can recycle PET is not limited by the "destroyed polymer chains", but mainly limited by contamination and discoloration, which is nearly impossible to remove during regular mechanical recycling.
Microplastics galore!
Credit where credit is due, kudos to this team who figured out how to turn plastic waste into textile fibres but main issue is that plastic production is still increasing year by year and recycling it is a joke
I can appreciate the effort that went into building this facility, but they are certainly not the ones to start making fibers from waste PET 😂it's been done since the 70s
Recycling is a joke. Consume less.
You are a joke@@pdnowlin
guys just use less of all the things that contain plastic. Oh wait, almost everything has plastic
Yes let’s wear this and sweat microplastics into our pores 😂
This is going straight to the balls
😂😂😂
@@JPzizou why u gotta shit talk my dreams like that
😂😂😂 Man, hard times being a man
Bruh
I just want to say turning rubbish into bricks battery boxes and clothes absolutely amazing
Brics with another natural coating is better to stop the penetration in to atmosphere like asbestos after some years
Cause it doesn’t actually happen
This is actually horrible...
What's even more ridiculous that fashion brands are increasingly using Polyester in their expensive clothing.
It's cheap for them, they can make cheap and toxic clothes and sell at ridiculously high prices. They pretend like they care for the nature but the only thing they care is their profits.
Come back to the real world.
Yes, even the mid and higher end brands are increasingly using synthetics as the average consumer doesn't know the difference.
@Brahh777 Luxury cars are using polyester. cry more dum boy
So sad you have every right to cry
I give my condolences
This is a fascinating process. But I've been seeing a lot of companies "green washing" and replacing cotton clothes with clothes made from recycled plastic. It's really annoying when you prefer cotton and dont want to pay luxury prices for something that used to be affordable.
Sustainable natural fiber fabrics were never affordable. If you got it for cheap then corners were cut somewhere. Cheap cotton is full of toxic chemicals and use cheap labor. Truth is people want to complain about sustainability but don't want to pay the cost for it.
@@la6136right! Even organic cotton has nasty stuff in it and consumes inordinate amounts of water and resources to produce.
Moral of the story, don't shop fast fashion
You are right ✅️
Most people with negative comments don't realize they have been buying and wearing these clothes for years. Check the tags. If you buying anything besides 100% cotton you are buying plastic!
Even in 100% cotton, the yarns are allowed to be from a different material. And polyester yarns are much better for sewing and is more durable
This guy is an inspiration. Thank you for covering his story @business insider
Being an Indian, my family never liked synthetic clothes. We have very few of them. We go for cottons , khadi , silk or linen. Even now cotton , khadi and silk has its own glory in india and people are coming back to it.
Same in my family. Seeing how many Indian companies are now putting literal waste plastic into clothes, I'm glad more and more people are returning to pure cotton.
But there's still lots and lots of ignorant people who are using plastic and even wearing it now
And half these clothes are being made for big brands. So likely lots of clueless consumers in the West, Japan and Korea are also wearing plastic, and increasingly Africa too.
Sometimes I think the Arabs got lucky. Due to the amount of sanctions, they're basically forced to use and wear and eat only what is locally produced from traditional materials. That's going to save them in the long run
@@luxinvictus9018 It's not the fault of Indian companies. They are actually doing good by increasing the life span of those plastics which were going to harm us sooner.
The utter idiocy of people in this comment section not understanding that polyester is not just for garments. (Even though it is a major component for durability in some types of clothing). It is a very important material to make bag backs , shoes, tent equipment, sporting equipment, ropes etc where you need the durability of a polyester. Things that cotton can’t make.
Not every thread is made to sleep in
Also, cotton farming is an extremely water consuming activity. Even treating few meters of cotton can take up to 20L of water. Its not a magic fabric. Nothing is .
Cotton and polyester can have their own purposes. It doesn’t need to be one or the other
This company on to something big in their own right
natural, more environmentally friendly fabrics that resist wrinkles and don’t use a ton of chemicals and don’t leave micro plastics on the water:
1. Wool: Naturally wrinkle-resistant and cozy.
2. Silk: Wrinkles less and feels luxurious.
3. Hemp: Less wrinkly and eco-friendly.
4. Linen-Cotton Blends: Wrinkles less than pure linen.
5. Lyocell (Tencel): Made from wood pulp, eco-friendly, and resists wrinkles.
6. Organic Cotton with Natural Treatments: Look for GOTS-certified to keep chemicals low.
25 Metric tonnes a day? Wow!
The plastic in the whole world is almost 400 million metric tons
@@Kotte2000 25 tonnes is still a significant amount for 1 factory to recycle dailly.
Ppl hating on something that's better than just leaving those plastics everywhere
It would be better to stop buying the plastic in the first place then they would stop making it.
Nice. Hope every countries wil have the same to dealt with garbage...
So instead of eliminating the use of plastic bottles... let's just make more money on top of it so that in the end we just end up using even more plastic...
Have fun trying to get to get whole world to stop using plastic bottles. At least these guys are trying to do something about the FACT that they exist, and they will keep being used
You think this company in India has the power to make everyone stop using plastic bottles? The plastic bottles are already out there. This company is just putting them to good use.
One day I want to build one like that in Haiti 🇭🇹 thanks 🙏
5:18 freaks me out! DON'T TOUCH!! 😂
What a brilliant mind to think about the environment!❤
Tbh we need sustainable ways to make clothes. Both plastics and cottons are really unsustainable for mass use. Plastic sucks for microplastics and cotton sucks for the amount of water needed (aral sea)
Yes, very true. And the sustainable way is very simple... Stop over-consuming. Don't buy more than you need, don't buy new trends every season, and don't throw out clothes that are only one year old... Buy fewer but quality items that can last for a long time.
Cotton isn't the only option, there are also other natural materials such as hemp. Look for sustainable clothing brands and what materials they're using, they might have found a natural material they can produce in a sustainable way in that area. Linen, silk and more.
@SkyeAten so you want everyone to be like you?
what a about wool, relatively sustainable to source, doesn't stain, and is more durable. The solution to pollution and climate change is too source materials and foods naturally instead of ultra proccesing everything. We need to start working with what we got.
Soft drinks ( unhealthy for body )
Soft drink bottles ( unhealthy for environment)
clothing should not be made out of plastic, people breathe in plastic particles from clothing
absolutely
Definitely not ideal but this factory is better than landfill.
Nobody putting that genie back in the bottle. Microplastics are just a thing you have to live with. Deal with it.
We work with what we got. And plastic is less intrusive than you think
People breath in cotton fiber too....ozone ....pollen ......dust. 😅.
Farmers lung eh .
Salute to this great idea of spreading microplastic in the environment in the name of recycling
What made you shift from cotton which is easier to recycle..?
I will never forget when i was a kid and saved all year for a football shirt from my club, i had to wear a cotton shirt under as the shirt had polyester and was itchy and felt unconfortable. I love the ideia of recycling.
These efforts are very good to improve pollution and atmosphere and control the trash...
This is a health nightmare
Conversion of plastic and making use in clothing is a very essential need in modern era.
To everyone saying it's better to just leave the bottles to recycle into new ones, they get all their bottles from landfills and oceans, the bottles would have just sat there if they hadn't have grabbed it. 😊
Great video
But simple cotton clothings are, I believe, always better
Woah i havent thought washing my clothes was introducing microplastics also!!!!!!! Thats crazy to think about. Love you du pont?????
Arent those the kind that makes you sweat muchmuch more compared to cotton or silk?
But Good heavens the ammount of waste plastics they put to good use 👏👏👏👏👏
Getting people to separate waste to recycle items is a HUGE struggle in the USA. Recycling is not mandatory in many municipalities. And, when waste is set aside for recycling, they are not properly sorted.
we should stop recycling plastic period.
This video was highly informative and entertaining. Extending the life of plastics is an admirable plan. I look forward to AI & Quantum Computing to find more ways to get rid of waste.
India needs mor factories like this who is agree
This was really informative, thank you Business Insider
After this video, am recommended for Eco Line ncoz its availed in India chepaer and sharing this to all about these companies...really appreciated
Don't. Microplastics poison the blood. Plastic is a toxic material, and that's why the the big companies promote the use of it in India, because people in the west have increasingly stopped using plastic
Better to wear pure cotton like khadi. Plastic recycling is a scam. Recycled plastic is toxic.
Proud to be an Indian. 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳
the biggest quesiton - is where is there an American company turning into a mega-corporation doing this same issue with all of our waste plsatics and glass bottles as well ..... ????? !!!!
Oh no. Americans won't do anything. They will just lecture about this and that while polluting the whole world. They have car based cities, they consume God knows how many gallons of petroleum products, they drink sodas from plastic bottles instead of normal water, they need hundreds of plastic Stanley Cups because it's the latest Instagram trend, everything they eat has plastic in it, they want fancy plastic phones, they wear plastic jewellery, but wearing clothes with blended plastic fibre is where they draw the line. Funnily, all their athleisure (LuLu Lemon) wear has a tonne of plastic in it and they wear it to vulgarly stick their bum photos on Instagram for the whole world to see.
They have the gall to criticize a company that is lessening the amount of waste in landfill while dumping their trash in poorer countries.
I just find it fascinating how they found ways to upcycle, especially with those ash bricks!
Throught plastic bottle consume plastic inside body and then wearing plastic clothes absorb plastic from skin ... Great 👍
greenwashing.
Companies that use plastic packaging need a better labeling method. Our local recycling rules are to remove labels from plastic before it’s recycled. It’s nearly impossible to get some labels off. I have noticed some brands starting to use “shrink wrap” type plastic film for labels, so they can be easily removed. But then THAT plastic goes in the trash while the bottle gets recycled. So idk…what’s worse?
This is truly AMAZING
Not pictured: 1.5 million plastic bottles worth of clothing turning into landfill waste
i can support you in technology development as i have immense knowledge in chemical engineering field
Really I feel proud to think about clr cycling to use able thing sir this video is just motivating me
As long as it is not possible to recycle the textiles this should be seen as a environment hazard. REMOVING recyclable material from recycling is idiotic.
come to surat brother you will found thousands of companies like this from last 20 year.
Surat Textile city for the reason🎉❤
I'm glad they are part of the pollution solution, but hell - I WOULD NEVER WEAR POLYESTER!
Hi Business Insider, do you have a website with your research?
I would love and like to make it as a Reference and citations for our research.
Our topic is also aligned with plastics and waste management. Thank you☺
Absolutely awesome! Fantastic work
Please keep it up our earth 🌍 needs all the help it can get!!!
And useful products are a bonus!!😊
And yes I agree that we need to stop using plastic but as long as there are drinks in plastic bottles, You Tubers flogging dollar store crap decorating tips, and an entire population of people who won’t give up their convenience items (1st world problems) and many places that have no options-no access to garbage pick up/ recycling etc or even options of how their food is packaged……
Recycling ♻️ is the only option to try and save our planet. It’s easy to say stop using it. Try eliminating it completely from your own life. You can’t!! Saran Wrap, Tupperware, bowls,
Most clothes have some, everything we own- cars, cameras, computers, phones
I could go on. Most of these things could not be made without plastic.
I am suggesting to please expand their business here in the Philippines.plastic materials is one of the problem arising from growing population and businesses..
Drinking Microplastic is crazy 💀
Waterbottles¿
And this is supposed to be positive?!? Polyester clothes is the worlds biggest polutant and way harder to recycle!
Plastic for Clothing not good for body health.
Lmao why can’t anybody see the good in what they’re doing? Nearly everyone is complaining about the microplastics and not how much waste they’re removing from the environment
he's probably an idiot
They aren't removing plastic from the environment, this is just a pit stop before the landfill because polyester cannot be easily recycled.
Because it’s easier to identify problems than actually solve them.
Yeah, because putting the microplastics directly onto my body is somehow better than them being in a designated, closed-off, and monitored area...
Things shouldn’t come in plastic in the first place .
Can we use this to build ships? Or space ships? Or speace products? Why clothing?
You can't use recycled plastic in space technology. Most things that go into space require extremely hi tech parts which need to made from expensive allows and metals like gold, silicon and titanium. That's why they're so costly and expensive to make.
Even clothes is not a good idea. People don't realise that plastic just isn't that good. It's low quality, toxic and hard to recycle. We'd be actually far better off using cotton, wood and leather
now someone do a study of rise in cancer after Dupont business started.
I prefer wearing natural fibers over synthetic.
It's just the plastic which remains in the end. We go round and round with the plastic. The plastic needs an end.
This is so awesome!
And y’all wonder why the fertility rates are declining and ppl are getting sicker
@@asahibunni7426 no. We don’t wonder. We already know
Why, because of polymer fiber clothing?
"Declining fertility rates" are not the reason for the decline in neo-natality, it's people no longer affording to have children due to the ever increasing cost of living, among a lot of other reasons, none of them being that they are not fertile enough due to microplastics.
Fertility is most likely just fine, but it takes more than just beimg "fertile" in order to have kids, you know...
Hi sir I really Love this Type Of recycling ❤
🎉 CONGRATULATIONS !!! A very good idea & work ! Keep it up 👍👍👍😊
In other words , we are wearing garbage . Tomorrow we will eat plastic and say we are sustaining food crisis .
I mean, the fish usually tend to eat plastic and then we eat the fish..
@@zinzyu and we eat a size of credit card plastic every week . Lol
Proud of you bro.
Yes, I feel the same.Polyester? How do you RECYCLE old Polyester Shirts??
Prefer Cotton, a natural product.
Cotton farming need extensive water so not suitable
And where will the clothing go? I don’t think people are getting it yet
From waste to waste Shall we wear plastic?
I have polyester jerseys made from recycled plastic and some made with traditional polyester and I can't tell the difference in material.
Great! We have now delayed the problem with maybe a year or two as there's no way to recycle polyester clothing after.
Don't get me wrong, this is better than not recycling plastic, but this is NOT the solution to the plastic problem.
... not to mention all the microplastic fibres these produce quicker than any other plastics.
Thank you! Love it!
Recycling is good but we have much better options of wearable fabrics made of various plant waste these days, polyester can be used for many other purposes than clothing.
None of this matters when fast fashion brands would rather landfill their overstock than to donate or recycle it.
It's not the recycling company that is bad. It's the one who invented plastic. Some of us here in our country are going back to old things like using bags or containers made of paper of coconut leaves. I wonder why these things were pasted out before. Could be for the plast industry to boom even more.
And yes, I've read this somewhere, some scientist found microplastics in humans' blood. This could also be one of the cause why even if we exercise and eat healthily, we are still sickly compared to humans before.
Or we could go back to glass bottles
How is plastic more sustainable then cotton? Not only that how and who is recycling those shoes after? Might as well use plastic where people already using plastic.
This is a crazy number of machines
very inspirational
Everything seems to be great, but microplastics that are created every time such clothes are washed... I would like to find the answer to this question.
When every plastic use ceases, it's better to find natural bio products to use sustain for very healthy, happy and breathable MOTHER EARTH 💐❤🙏🙏🙏😇
how air will pass through this "clothing" to skin?
There is so much of this garbage clothing out there that literal shipping container ships full of “old” cloths are going to places like Chile. They have huge markets for reselling this clothing and whatever doesn’t sell was trucked to a dump site. This dumpsite in the Atacama Desert was around 59,000 tons of discarded clothing.
Last year there was a wild fire in the clothing dump site that lasted weeks and sent toxic fumes to cities and towns nearby.
Polyester isn’t sustainable by any measure.
bravo sir, bravo india!
recycling is good. but then how to recycle polester??
Ultimately, science is initially advantageous and lately it's turning to be disadvantageous. Natural products are the only solution in life🙏
Microplastic is less dangerous than plastic everywhere
Unbelievable👍
how long until we find out those plastic fibres are as dangerous as asbestos ???
Thank you ♥
This isn’t healthy.
I recently tossed all my clothing made from polyester and synthetic materials (Lululemon, workout gear, etc.) and have been wearing 100% cotton or linen. My skin looks clearer. I’m glad to not have recycled plastic on my skin.
World need to recycle waste product to keep our mother earth safe.🙏🏻🙏🏻
I'm glad these folks have come up with this technology; but there are easier ways to reduce our use of polyester. I don't buy fast fashion, it's too cheaply made; buy good quality stuff, use it longer, avoid the latest fashions. I can stand to wear a cotton/poly blend, but I avoid pure polyester clothing; it's not comfortable.
For those of you reading this comment, it's okay, it's normal to feel lonely sometimes, if you're going through tough times, keep trying, but never give up,
The problem is fast fashion fills our land fills even more than bottles.. so after recycling the bottles who will be recycling all the plastic shirts 👕 😅
And plastic has been used in fashion for years.. going back to the 1960s.. polyester and rayon blends got plastic