Zhejiang Zhoushan Coca-Cola bottle made of fabric

The plastic bottles that have been used to drink have been littered with garbage, and they have been recycled into factories for large uses.

Remember the Shanghai World Expo Coca-Cola? There is a green carpet in front of the entrance gate. The carpet is made of recycled Coke bottles. The souvenirs such as bags, hats, and T-shirts sold in the retail area outside the pavilion are also used for plastic bottles. Processed.

Today, there is also a company in Zhoushan dedicated to turning waste into treasure and making beverage bottles as raw materials for clothes fabrics.

Baby recovered from garbage dump

Yesterday, the reporter went to Zhonglang Environmental Protection Co., Ltd. at No. 58, Xinma Road, Xingang Park, Zhoushan Economic Development Zone, and the front of the reporter was a large truck. “The bottle is a bottle of bricks, which is the plastic bottle after being squashed and compacted.” Mao Youjun, general manager assistant of the company, told reporters, “These things are rubbish to others, but it is our baby here.”

Follow the bottle of brick into Zhonglang's production workshop. The first came to the cleaning workshop where plastic bottles purchased from the waste recycling station were cleaned, and impurities such as caps, label paper, etc. were separated, and then the bottles were crushed into fingernail-sized bottles.

Then came to the spinning workshop and saw a roll of milky white silk thread on the shelf. "This is our product, POY, which is polyester yarn."

According to Mao Youjun, after a series of chemical polymerizations, the broken bottle pieces can be drawn into yarns. The yarns are very fine, only about 100 dtex, that is, the weight of each 10,000 m long yarn is 100 g. "POY is made of fabric and can be used as clothing. After POY is bombed, it is DTY. Socks can be made."

Resource regeneration, comfortable and environmentally friendly

Plastics are one of the great inventions of mankind, but because it is difficult to degrade it has become a source of headaches and causes harm to the environment. In fact, waste plastics are not garbage, and they can be turned into waste through environmental protection technology.

It is understood that the main material of plastic bottles is generally PP (polypropylene) and PET (polyethylene terephthalate), and the latter is one of the important raw materials for the production of clothing fabrics. According to The Coca-Cola Company, five Coke bottles can be made into one piece of clothing, and two Coke bottles can be made into one hat.

According to the Institute of Textile Science in Beijing, this type of clothing is very cool to wear because it has a “moisture-absorbing and quick-drying” feature that allows consumers to wear on the body and is both environmentally friendly and comfortable. “Our corporate philosophy is green and environmental protection. We not only use renewable resources as raw materials, but also strive to create emissions-free standards in the production process.” Mao Youjun said, “The traditional practice in the production of polyesters in the world is chemical refining, and after our technological innovation, , The quality of the product has been able to meet the standards of the original product."

Will provide 1,500 jobs for Zhoushan

Zhonglang Environmental Protection Co., Ltd. was founded in 2006. Currently, each production line has just been paved. After it is completely put into production, it will consume 180,000 tons of waste plastic bottles each year, and produce 100,000 tons of POY and 5 tons of DTY. The utilization rate of plastic bottles will reach 80%. “At present, the waste plastic bottles produced in Zhoushan are only a few thousand tons each year and cannot meet our needs. Therefore, our company has established acquisition stations in Shanghai, Foshan, Wuhan, Harbin and other places. The sales network also covers major cities across the country.”

It is reported that Zhonglang’s environmental protection production technology and production capacity are currently at the leading level in China, and the production process is highly automated. For example, in a spinning workshop, a worker can be responsible for a row of machines, and the total number of workers in the entire workshop is increased by three shifts. There are only about 90.

According to the reporter’s understanding, Zhonglang Environmental Protection will provide 1,500 jobs for local residents after it is completed. Among them, the general operator needs the most, and the conditions such as ** are almost unrequired. At present, it is actively "recruiting troops" and is eagerly looking forward to someone applying.