Machines knit or weave the yarns together to make polyester fabric. It takes about 9 plastic bottles to make one T-shirt … and about 11 plastic bottles to make a pair of shoes! Even though recycled ...

Using plastic bottles exclusively from this network ... per minute into a flexible yarn that gets spooled and ready for weaving. Every pound of the final 100% post-consumer recycled fabric ...

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. By Julie Creswell ...