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Hit the Bottle
Probably one of the most mainstream of the alternative fabrics is recycled P.E.T., or poly(ethylene terephthalate). The substance is commonly found in soda bottles and its alter-ego, polyester fleece, has already hit the promotional circuit.
In an October 2007 “Developments to Watch” Web video from BusinessWeek, Ingrid Johnson, a professor of textiles and marketing at the Fashion Institute of Technology, described the process. Once a bottle is recycled into little polyester chips, they’re melted down and extruded through a machine called a spinaret, which she said, “is more or less like a showerhead and it will force the solution through … and we create fibers from that.”
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