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19/06/2019 – Sustainability

“We need to get into chemistry”

How would it be if a PET bottle that had been recycled into fibres were then to re-emerge successively as different types of clothing?

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A textiles man with a weakness for chemistry: Company Director Thomas Weiske © Carl Weiske

 
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PET bottles are turned into polyethylene fibres whose first textile use is as protective rainwear … after which they are recycled again into T-shirts. © Carl Weiske

 
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A textiles man with a weakness for chemistry: Company Director Thomas Weiske © Carl Weiske

 
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‘Daughter’ and ‘grandson’ of the PET bottle: rainwear and T-shirt © Carl Weiske

 
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Hans-Werner Oertel
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Hans-Werner Oertel

Carl Weiske GmbH & Co. KG

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