From Plastic Waste to Eco Fabric

While the image of eco fabric may be is formed by rolls of hemp, linen, and organically grown cotton, there is another player in textiles that can save the day: recycled polyester.
 
People instinctually don’t like synthetics because its test-tube origins don’t carry the emotional resonance that natural fibers do. Funnily, while the ongoing ‘natural vs. synthetic’ debate goes louder every year, in reality, man-made fibers had already long but conquered the textile industry—more than 60% of global fabric production is synthetic and polyester reisns.

If you’d start looking at the labels, it won’t take long to discover that most of your favorite fabrics and garments are actually made of polyester: a soft touch of fleece that warms you during outdoor adventures or the efficiency of sportswear you choose for working out. Even if the clothing item looks like cotton or wool, nowadays, it’s mostly a combination of 55% poly and other fabric to create a better blend.
 
But what can possibly make polyester, a fabric originating from non-renewable petroleum resources, a green choice? Well, thanks to technology advancement, now we can recycle plastic that would have gone wasted into that same most popular fabric. Recycled poly not only offers a solution to the outrageous plastic pollution problem we’ve created, it does so with style. This recycled fabric has a longer lifecycle, saving resources over and over along the consumption loop, but you won’t guess in a hundred years, that soft textile, which drapes beautifully and feels good used to be a plastic bottle.

So yes, polyester received a sustainable upgrade and is on the way to conquer high fashion even: already Livia Firth and Emma Watson pull off the red carpet look in dresses made of plastic. Sustainability is a new fashion statement.

生态织物可能是大麻，亚麻和有机棉花，另一种纺织品可以保存：再生聚酯。

人们本能地不喜欢合成材料因为它不带有天然纤维。有趣的是，而每年都会进行 “天然或合成” 的争论，在现实中，人造纤维已经有很长的历史，征服了纺织行业——超过60%的全球织物生产合成和聚酯。

看标签不会花很长时间，发现最你喜欢的面料和服装实际上是由聚酯制作的：在你户外冒险的时候会使你温暖或你选择工作效率的运动服有着柔软触感。即使看起来像棉或羊毛服装，如今，主要55%是其他织物的合成来达到一个更好的融合。

但是什么会产生聚酯纤维，织物来自不可再生的石油资源，一个绿色的选择吗？由于技术进步，现在我们可以回收塑料浪费成同一最流行的面料。回收聚乙烯塑料污染不仅提供了一个解决的问题的方案。这个回收织物有更长的生命周期，节约资源沿着消费循环一遍又一遍，但你不会想在一百年，柔软的纺织品，窗帘很漂亮，使用塑料瓶子的感觉很好。

是的，聚酯纤维已经可持续升级，甚至征服高级时尚：利维亚弗斯和艾玛沃特森红地毯礼服是由塑料制成的。可持续发展是一种新的时尚。