School Uniforms from Pop Bottles
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 04.10.08
In the UK a lot of kids still have to wear uniforms; now they can wear pure polyester made from PET pop bottles. It would be nice if it was a local industry, with visions of Scottish weavers fishing bottles out of the ocean, spinning them into yarn, weaving the fabric and sending it off to Saville Row, but no, it is made in Taiwan and tailored in Europe "to avoid the use of child labour."
Mark Southcott of School Colours told the Guardian the jackets and trousers look and feel like any manmade fibre clothing, but every stitch was once part of Coke's familiar hourglass bottles."We have to use clear plastic because colours weaken the fibre"
Just don't tell mom about the antimony. ::Guardian
do the suits last for hundreds of years too?
I would not vouch for the flame-retardent quality of these clothes. Not acceptable for lower-forms!
Rob,
They are presumably already wearing polyester uniforms. Shouldn't recycled polyester be a better eniviroonmental and equivalent fire safety choice over virgin polyester? Think about the fire retardant materials used in computers and I think you'll agree pure poly is better.
Does anyone know the composition of aramid, the material used to make fire resistant flightsuits?
Was this PET engineered to be constantly placed against human skin? I doubt it.
Aaron,
PET and polyester are the same thing. The polyester jackets they are already wearing are made of the same chemical.
This oughta get kids off the soda.
Excellent idea. I love the idea of recycling in the fashion industry.. and if we continue on this trend of trim, well-tailored men's clothing, we'll be saving lots of excess material straight from the manufacturing process.
Well, that's very debateable and not well grounded in fact.
However, check out my men's fashion blog:
-MANshion
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man fanshion. simple.
really cool and eco friendly
really cool and eco friendly