Eco wool made from recycled plastic bottles

Danish textile company, TEXSTYLE, transforms recycled plastic into a variety of design fabrics, including velvet and wool. With the latest addition of the Dolly Recycled line, which looks and feels like wool, the company now offers 15 different materials in its TEXTYLE Recycle collection, which can all be ordered in a range of colours.

The Dolly Recycled line offers the same appearance and softness as conventional wool, while being composed of 100% recycled polyester. For every 100 meters of Dolly fabric produced, 3000 large PET bottles (approximately 1.5 litres each) are removed from the local waste stream, which equates to 69 kilograms of upcycled plastic waste. TEXSTYLE estimates that one upholstered chair using Dolly fabric represents 75 bottles of waste plastic.

Fabrics in the TEXTYLE Recycle collection are initially sourced from plastic waste collected in mainland China. This plastic waste is then cleaned and resized into tiny PET particles, before being taken to a yarn mill and compounded into plastic pellets to create the basic yarn used to produce the entire collection.

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