If you’re like me you’ve probably made the switch from ‘disposable’ water bottles to a reusable bottle or canteen.   But what do we do with the mountains of plastic bottles that are stacked up around the globe? Turn them into fabric!

Bionic Yarn is a revolutionary fiber made from recycled plastic bottles.

Bionic Yarn’s patented process utilizes the plastic from recycled PET bottles for the basis for strong and beautiful new yarns for the garment industry. The process is uniquely simple, yet creates an endless combination of refined fibers for various applications such as: Backpacks, Luggage/Handbags, Active/Outdoor Apparel, Casual Apparel/Denim, Footwear, and Home/Outdoor Furnishings.

How it works:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 Plastic bottles are recycled by consumers.

2 Recycled plastic PET bottles are ground up, melted and extruded into short strings.

3 These short (AKA staple fibers) are spun with strong polyester.

4 The new polyester/recycled plastic is used as the core yarn that other fibers are spun (AKA helixed) around.

5 The Bionic Yarn is then woven into various fabrics and different weaves depending on final application.

6 The resulting Bionic Fabric is made into a consumer product.

 

In the aftermath of the over-use of non-renewable and ‘disposable’ items made from petro-based plastics (i.e. PET) revolutionary companies and products like Bionic Yarn are reusing readily available materials — completing the recycling stream and keeping these materials out of landfills.

Keep recycling, and you never know your next environmentally friendly, recycled content garment might contain Bionic Yarn and a bottle you recycled!