A billion kilograms of waste from ... head of the plastic recycling division of Green Eco Manufacture (GEM), a recycling company based in Shenzhen, China. Those containers are made from ...

Skirts of knotted plastic fishing line with a bodice made from takeaway soy sauce ... Much of what she finds is textile waste: scraps of synthetic clothing that take decades or centuries to ...

Clothing made with Ocean Plastic has been used in ... And one study estimates that 90% of seabirds have consumed some form of plastic waste. All that pollution on beaches and in the ocean is ...

Narrator: This pile of scraps is actually shredded plastic and clothing ... or crude oil. We make the exact same petrochemicals, except we don't use the petroleum; we use waste plastic.

The waste is then sorted ... You may have seen Adidas' recycled sportswear without even noticing it. Clothing made with Ocean Plastic has been used in college football, baseball, the NHL, the ...

The MPs warned companies were creating huge amounts of waste by selling cheap clothes designed only to be worn a few times. They also said the synthetic fabrics used to make such garments shed ...

It’s the basis of many products we use, is weaved into the clothes we ... But being mostly made from fossil fuels, and with around 300 million tonnes of plastic waste created every year, plastic ...

The report also describes the ironic life cycle of plastic bottles as pickers wander the waste collecting them to be recycled, shipped to China where it is shredded and used to make polyester clothing ...

the use of toxic chemicals and textile waste. Committee chairwoman Mary Creagh said: "The way we design, make and discard clothes has a huge environmental impact. Producing clothes requires toxic ...