The Art of Crafting Plastic Bottles: From Start to Finish. Posted: August 19, 2024 | Last updated: August 19, 2024. Discover how plastic bottles are meticulously crafted!

The long fibers are pulled and stretched, and then twisted together to make a special kind of yarn. Machines knit or weave the yarns together to make polyester fabric. It takes about 9 plastic bottles ...

The plastic CamelBak bottles displayed in a Target in East Hanover, N.J., offer a promise to ecologically conscious buyers. On the front of each is a bright blue sticker with the words “Tritan ...

Single use plastic water bottles are a major component of overall plastic waste with 50 billion purchased each year in the US. A company called Cove has just launched the first biobased, fully ...

To make a patio set I use about 1,600 plastic bottles. If you put 10 of those together you can see how much plastic bottles I saved from going in the gutter, gullies, and drains.

A green accounting method called “mass balance” certifies that something was manufactured with recycled plastic — just not necessarily much of the bottle making the claim.

Nanoplastics are plastic fragments that are smaller than 100 nanometres. “Imagine that every day you drink one and a half litres of water,” says Sarkar. “If you drink from a new bottle every day, you ...