Dgrade | Clothing made from recycled plastic bottles

Eco Manufacturing For Business

DGrade is a brand based company supplying the highest quality ECO friendly products made from recycled plastic bottles.

The Facts

• Plastic bottles are made from oil.

• Oil is a finite resource and will not last forever!

• Plastic was invented in the 1960’s as a reusable and recyclable material. It’s just cheaper nowadays to make more rather than recycle it.

• It takes hundreds, if not thousands of years, for plastic to decompose in landfill.

• Plastic water bottles cost more to make than the cost of the water in the bottles.

• There were 1.5 billion bottles produced in the U.A.E alone in 2010 and this number is growing by 20% year-on-year.

• On average we consume 275 litres of bottled water per person per year.

95% of all plastic ever created is still in existence today 0

More than 90% of refuse found on beaches is plastic 0

It takes 50% less energy to produce recycled Polyester than to produce virgin 0

Our process uses 20% less water than producing Polyester from scratch. 0

A million plastic bottles are bought every minute across the world & just 7% of plastic bottles collected last year were recycled. 0

66

Billion bottles of water are consumed each year in the U.S.A. alone

57

billion plastic bottles go into U.S. landfills every year.

10.5

The U.S generates 10.5 million tons of plastic a year.

The Process

Plastic bottles are collected, washed, flaked and sorted by type and colour, then compressed and bailed. The Plastic flakes are heated and melted to produce both long and short fibres for yarn production. This yarn can be woven or knitted in the same way as conventional fabric, thus helping to create a sustainable system for recycling waste back into everyday products, such as clothing, toys etc.