This is new $85 pullover, made from about 25 recycled plastic soft-drink bottles.(It points a another picture.) Recycler Wellman Corp. chips old soda bottles, melts the chips and spins them into fibers and then into fleece. Sewing factories complete the metamorphosis form pop bottle to pullover. Both environmentally and financially, it makes more sense to make sweaters out of pop bottles than to make new bottles out of the old ones. Patagonia claims customers like the soda-bottle sweaters so well the company sold 16,000 of them the first month.
April 04, 2006
Pop (bottle) Fashion
This is new $85 pullover, made from about 25 recycled plastic soft-drink bottles.(It points a another picture.) Recycler Wellman Corp. chips old soda bottles, melts the chips and spins them into fibers and then into fleece. Sewing factories complete the metamorphosis form pop bottle to pullover. Both environmentally and financially, it makes more sense to make sweaters out of pop bottles than to make new bottles out of the old ones. Patagonia claims customers like the soda-bottle sweaters so well the company sold 16,000 of them the first month.
