A Dubai company is making clothes out of recycled plastic

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Full Story Here: https://gn24.ae/86011b99b2aa000 More Great Videos Here: https://gulfnews.com/videos  Save the planet by wearing clothes made out of recycled plastic. A clothing manufacturer in Dubai has been working with its supply chains in China and India to use fabric made of shredded plastic is now about to kick off this process in its 3,500-square-metre recycling plant in Dubai South this year.

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00:00My name is Chris Barber.

00:29I'm the owner and the founder of a company called Degrade.

00:34My background is actually textile development and I looked at the feasibility of trying

00:39to use a recycled material in our production some ten years ago in the UK.

00:45Eight years ago we looked at the feasibility of coming to Dubai to try and set up the manufacturing

00:50system here.

00:52Now that was partly due to the fact that there is so much plastic in the environment.

00:56We know that there is in excess of 10 million plastic bottles produced every day and less

01:02than 6% of that plastic is actually recycled.

01:05This is conventional polyester yarn.

01:08We're just recreating it from a source that would otherwise be thrown into landfill.

01:15Far more environmentally friendly than creating polyester from scratch.

01:18We use 20% less water, 50% less energy and the process itself creates 55% fewer

01:26carbon emissions than creating polyester from scratch.

01:29And of course our process doesn't use oil.

01:33It takes approximately 2cm of oil to make a plastic bottle but with our technology and

01:41our process we're not using oil.

01:43So really it's a fantastic solution to what is now an environmental disaster with the

01:50amount of plastic that there is in the environment, in the sea and in the desert.

01:55Unfortunately 50% of all camels die through plastic ingestion in this area.

02:01Plastic has been given a very bad name recently.

02:04Consumers concern that plastic is endangering animals and wildlife and having a very bad

02:12effect on the environment.

02:13This is absolutely true.

02:15But we don't think plastic itself is the problem.

02:18We think it's more about human nature and that people should be more careful and take

02:24more responsibility to dispose of their plastic in an efficient and environmentally friendly

02:30way.

02:55Simply Bottles is an initiative that we've been running with schools for the past 2 years.

03:02We set competitions, we get the kids engaged, we teach them the process that we use itself

03:08to make clothing and we get them involved also to design school uniforms made from the

03:16plastic that they collect.

03:18So it's a great way of closing the loop and it's a great way of illustrating to people

03:24that if they recycle we can create something from it.

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