Look at how Taiwan made blankets from plastic bottles

In November last year, Chen Yunlin, president of the Association for Cross-Strait Relations, went to Taipei to cross the border and visited Taiwan’s Tzu Chi Heng Yan. The strict master gave him a grey blanket. She explained that it was made of 70 plastic bottles...

Plastic bottles are made from polyester, a byproduct of petroleum refining. The advent of plastic bottles has facilitated people’s lives. At the same time, it cannot be reused. It also does not rot for thousands of years, adding new annoyance to the earth.

In 1990, Taiwan’s largest public welfare organization, the Tzu Chi Foundation’s Master Yan Jian, proposed in a speech to use applause to protect our planet. Tzu Chi volunteers began recycling garbage and classified it. However, recycled plastic bottles can only be buried or burned, leaving no hidden danger or causing new pollution.

“In 2004, the strictest person asked me if plastic bottles and chemical fiber clothing are all extracted from petroleum. Why can't plastic bottles be converted into clothes?” Tzu Chi Volunteer and Taiwanese German Horse Textile Co., Ltd. Huang Huade, the person in charge, said, "I answered that this technology was developed 10 years ago in the United States. It is not profound, but the process is complicated."

If plastic bottles are to be returned, they must first be sorted, sorted, and then washed and squashed. Then they are sent to the plastic processing factory for rinsing to form ester pellets; they are then sent to the spinning plant for spinning, weaving at textile mills, and finally cutting and sewing. . Before entering the processing plant, almost all links need to be handled manually and there is no economic benefit.

Tzu Chi volunteers don’t count on returns. The Tzu Chi Foundation established a clothing R&D team specifically. It began development in early 2006. After 10 months, it broke through the technical bottleneck. Two months later, mass production was achieved. 500,000 plastic bottles became 7,000 blankets...

Almost every link has great and small difficulties. Recycling is very trivial. Tzu Chi has set up more than 4,500 garbage collection stations in Taiwan. More than 62,000 environmental volunteers recycle large quantities of plastic bottles each year. Classification is more troublesome. Not all plastic bottles can be reused. Plastic bottles containing cleaning products and chemicals are not included in this list. Bottle caps, bottle rings, and label papers need to be removed and cleaned. Huang Huade introduced that if the plastic bottles are mixed with materials that cannot be used, they can only pull out very low-grade staple fibers and weave them into cloths, which can only be used as filling cotton. Even cleaning of plastic bottles is not clean, it will also affect the quality of spinning, resulting in a lot of waste, wasting resources.

In a large factory at the Tzu Chi Park in Neihu, Taipei, volunteers are undergoing initial processing of recycled plastic bottles. Most of them are housewives and elderly people with dementia. Under the guidance of the nanny, they come here to cut the bottle caps and go for trademarks. There are also a group of people with mental illness who come from rehabilitation homes and come here one day a week to step on the bottle. Du, who led the team, said that this is very effective in the psychological reconstruction of patients. They have been insisting for a year, and they are very resistant at first. Now they have to have a cold, because they know they are doing something meaningful.

The spinning textile industry is responsible for some Tzu Chi volunteers who are in the textile industry. When the recycled plastic bottles accumulated to a certain amount, volunteers such as Huang Huade started the production line in their own company and weaved the esters into fabric. Then, the Tzu Chi volunteers cut, sew, label and pack.

“The blankets we made originally were blue, and the latter ones were all gray. Because we dyed 1 kilogram of fabric, we need to consume 100 kilograms of water. We mixed white yarn with black yarn and weave it into gray, so we can save a lot of water resources. "Huang Huade said that a light green T-shirt worn by Tzu Chi volunteers was made from green plastic bottles and no need to dye them.

Tzu Chi has produced 300,000 blankets. In more than two years, the cost has continued to decrease, from twice the number of ordinary blankets, to 10% to 15%, and the quality has been continuously improved. When Chen Yunlin called on the strict Master, he praised blankets made of plastic bottles and Scarves, "as soft as wool," and the growing variety, they are now beginning to develop sweat-absorbent and breathable underwear made of plastic bottles. What is even more pride for Tzu Chi people is that these blankets and scarves are mainly used to help the victims and subsidize the poor.

According to Taiwan's environmental protection agency statistics, Taiwan used more than 4.2 billion plastic bottles in 2007 alone. “We are now considering setting up a company to produce R&D plastic bottles and garments. We hope to have more resources to join this rank, so that plastic bottles will no longer be a pollution hazard for the planet.” Huang Huade said, “There is only one planet, we have to be good. Protect it."

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