I like how they're able to fit in the whole process of recycling plastic bottles, showing all of the stages into just 5 minutes.

Wow! Why isn’t this done everywhere? Very amazing. I had no clue they could do that with plastic bottles.

Whats amazing is somebody desiged and built the machines to do this process

waste management is going to be one of the biggest survival challenge in the future.

So when someone tells you you're wearing garbage, don't get mad!

One man's trash is another man's treasure!

Peace… Shalom… Salam... Namaste and Thank You Everybody for educating people about recycling and All that you are doing for our Mother Earth 🙏🏻 😊 🌈 ✌ 🌷 ❤

We need more factories like this!

So that's why when I slid across the basketball court in middle school, my pants simply melted.

I LOVE seeing forward - earth saving stuff like this.

Great video - pretty incredible to see the end result !

This is super useful for textiles homework thanks 😁

Remember that this process can be done only once: ok, the bottle becomes a plastic dress, but when the dress needs to be thrown away, It can't be recycled anymore. We should avoid plastic at all and use infinite recycling materials as glass and metal

I was not aware that recycling demands these ridiculous amount of energy / efforts, not using plastic would be ideal for protecting our planet.

Thanks for a great upload again Triwood !

Very interesting and informative - I did not know this at all :)

SUPER educative. I recently started working in a recycling program in Puerto Rico and this was extremely helpful. Thank you.

It would not be easier to separate bottles by colour before crushing them, then, the poor workers would not have to sort the tiny pieces out, and will avoid for them to breathing the toxic chemical...

This is great way to recycle the plastics... Thanks for sharing...

Polyester is now being rebranded as “performance” fabric. I wish apparel companies would be honest and say “polyester is plastic. And we’d rather use recycled soda bottles to make clothes instead of growing cotton.”

This is a great idea to keep the plastic out of landfills and oceans. Maybe you could convince the fur-wearers to convert to fashion plastic ecological clothing! I love it! Let us promote this and encourage more recycling of plastic. Congratulations to the innovators!!!

thanks for posting, It is heartening to see such waste being re-used. Excellent video.

Amazing Plastic Recycling video. Thanks for sharing

What they left out is how this is done by families, with kids as young as 3 working to sort the plastic, breathing toxic fumes and not being able to afford school or proper food on the little money they make.

Everything should be recycled.

That's an amazing process.. But use it properly, and be aware about our health. Well, i feel bad for those worker.. hopely they get something worth in return.

Amazing, i never knew it that a plastic can be a textiles.. Im soo amazed 😆

This process is amazing

Chinese people are very hard working people

Thank you for publishing this video, I had learn many things about recycling plastic

Very informative and interesting. Thank you for sharing.

Wow!! The first time i saw this, it blew my mind!

i wanna be the guy that moves the cart back and forth all day catching dried plastic.

Noticed that the workers in the Chinese factory had better personal protective equipment (including respiratory filter masks) than in other places (including both in this video and in another video about recycling plastic bags in India). Not necessarily enough, but at least better than the nothing or near-nothing that the other workers had.

Very informative, educational.

Well what do you know. Great video and now I know where my fleece came from hahaha

Okay, now turn the jersey back into plastic bottles.

Anyone here from school?

incredible manufacturing process.

Absolutely amazing!!!

Wow, this is horrible, and it makes me feel bad. 😢

I always wondered how Plumbuses got made

This video was very helpful.

Thank you for that!

hi, we make bags from these materials. francesco

Ok recycling is good and the plastic bottles recycles to polyester but this is end of the line. The polyester clothing don't recycle anymore so the cycle is broken... In the end plastic does get to waste...

Another great upload, great.

I LEARND A LOT FROM THIS

Filming a Chinese factory without showing any children. Now, that's amazing!

But can they turn the polyester shirt to plastic bottle again!!? That would be amazing!

"Did you know" that film critic Gene Siskel owned the white polyester suit from Saturday Night Fever for several years. It was one of his favourite movies.

I had a project and it will be useful for me .. thank u

Protecting the earth,we have resposibility

You can tell how old this documentary is China don't take our plastics anymore

The touch, the feel of plastic...the fabric of our lives.

Very useful and informative for DT hw thank you 👍

Have there been any significant developments to this process since you posted this video in 2009? Would love to know more.

Forgot the part where the chemicals are flushed into the local river

The workers need more protection, those air born plastic fibre and wool lint will affect their lungs over time.

I know to work reciclying plastic is not the best thing, but this video is amazing! Could you imagine that soda's bottles could be a blouse? That's really amazing solution! It's not the final solution, but it's better than throw away in the garbage!

So that explains the static reaction when wearing polyester when handling certain things 🤔

Plus, you get 5 cents it's worth recycling. C:

thank you :D

I learned something interesting.

Most inefficient way i have seen, this could have been way more automatic, so the workers don't hurt their backs. E.g, the shredder at 0:55 could be put over the container and at 3:06 they could use a conveyor belt.

Amazing Plastic Recycling video, the machinery and health and safety cost for this set up must be immense:) #plasticrecycling Any one know when this was recorded?

wow this is amazing!

Excellent job

Wow, this is incredibly interesting. I'm really amazed

wait a minute your telling me POLYESTER IS PLASTIC

And...every country should do this!

fantastic this project. I like it

"OK guys, here's that idea I was telling you about: what if, and hear me out on this... what if we take plastic bottles... and turn them into textiles that people can wear or use in their daily lives??" **silence** "Yeah, Dave, I think you're gonna need to spend some time in the looney bin there..."

Down vote. Poorly made video, it makes hazardous recycling (for both humans and the environment) look like its so safe. "To the Chinese textile industry this waste is a valuable commodity" LOL not in 2018 when it's banned from China. Hope the UK builds up its recycling infrastructure like a responsible country.

thanks you so mcuh is just helped me with my science assessments task

wow amazing 😮 from plastic bottle to polyester

what may be total capital investment in this whole process>?

Any thoughts for me, or any possible advice, I greatly appreciate.

Amazed too see how the plastic waste is converted into daily usage clothes

I open polyester fiber bales at my work lol... the fiber is used to fill pillows, backs, and arms for your living room furniture.

Its great they're recycling but aren't they using fossil fuels to breakdown the plastic bottles then ship it, then process it? How much are the finished products? Is this cost effective?

Whoever filmed this did an awesome job of hiding the Chinese worker's leg irons.

These first line handlers should be highly paid

Wow never knew they did this , very cool.

wow, educational, I never thought that polyester is made of plastic

No more, China has plenty of plastic of their own. They do not need ours

thanks triwood

Good insightful videos.

and then bits of that fibre end up in our oceans as we wash these clothes, making our marine life sick.

Homework :(

I am totally fascinating by this. I would love to work there for a few months just to see how they recycle all those things

Your Video The rather complex process of converting used plastic bottles into useful polyester for the clothing industry Is Very Useful Sharing

wait, recycling is real?

For people in the comment section criticizing about recycling plastic is bad: I have few points for you - good luck to planet earth. good luck to unemployment rate. we should get naked then? #sarcasm

Thanks, this is awesome. China is an amazing country in many different ways.

Thank you very good job

I doubt this is profitable. Advertisers have a weird way of making themselves look like they are doing "good", when in fact, they are only lessening the "blow" of something evil or bad. Sure, we can make clothes out of plastic bottles: so there is less trash on the ground. Wouldn't it be better to not have the trash on the ground or plastic bottles to begin with? Replace plastic bottle with disease. Oh, lots of people have diseases, but our company is going to take the disease and make some other disease that is wearable for a little bit... It is sort of like the idea of taking a pill for something and the side effects end up causing lots of problems also. The people that make this plastic shirt/fabric will probably get cancer from the fumes and arthritis from hauling the shred all around. Some might get burnt from the caustic soda and some coal miners that mine the coal to fuel the factory will get black lung cancer/disease. And, the shirts are eventually going to get stained up, thrown away, or sit in a warehouse somewhere. Who knows? Maybe the ship transporting all the newly made shirts will get a leak and all the shirts will end up in the ocean as pollution. If the shirts weren't made, we wouldn't have that risk. No plastic bottles: no problem with needing to recycle bottles. Also, I will put it this way, which is how I make many of my decisions: Is the risk of cancer, pollution, annoyance of factory design, hiring of workers, handling labor, advertising, insurance risk, transportation and other logistic management, and all of the other work involved with making this shirt worth the reward of the finished product of the shirt? Will lots of customers love this shirt and feel that all of the work and hassle was worth it?

Love this video

Wow, impressive how they do a lot of thing that crazy....

Nice, thanks.