Plastic bottles turn mattresses, quilts & much more

When Latha throws away used plastic bottles every week, she just cleans up the trash at home.
Coumalaisamy is a water conservancy worker at the municipal company of Coimbatore, who is responsible for collecting garbage doorsto-
Door, make 5 for 35
Sell 40 scrap PET bottles to nearby scrap dealers, adding up to about a kilo.
After that, the discarded bottles did not know where to go.
It is about 45 km kilometers from Coimbatore in tilupur, USA.
Krishna Kumar\'s PET bottle recycling plant requires 55 bottles of lakh bottles per day.
He purchased from large scrap dealers in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka and paid £ 40 to £ 43 per kilogram of waste plastic bottles.
At the recycling plant, these bottles are classified, crushed, cleaned, colored and turned into PET fibers through conveyor belts, filter tanks and dryers.
This recycled polyester fiber is mixed with the fiber in the sock waste, spun into yarn, supplied not only to Tamil Nadu but also to the power loom weaving cluster across the country.
When it is not mixed with socks waste fiber, it is used to make mattresses, mats, quilts and non-woven fabrics.
Thanks to the textile industry ecosystem in Tamil Nadu
Including the supply of recycled fiber, and the presence of large number of sock units in the western region of Tirupur and textile mills --
The use of recycled fiber is becoming more and more popular, whether it is lungis made by Bhavani, sheets from Chennimalai, towels from Salem or kitchen linen from Karur.
It takes about 8 to 12 bottles to make a dress, and about 120 bottles for the mattress.
Rotating momentum. P.
Sultania, chairman of the all-India recycling fiber and yarn Association, said about 35 companies in India Recycle PET bottles and produce 50,000 tons of recycled fiber per month.
This is equivalent to nearly 50% of the original polyester fiber produced in the country. Though Mr.
Sultania established his department in 1996, and the industry did not gain momentum until after 2006.
\"It\'s because of better awareness and technology, and more recycled fiber applications,\" he said . \".
In fact, with the advancement of technology, the application of regenerated fibers can be further improved.
There are two PET recycling plants in Tamil Nadu, located in tirumble and Karu, respectively, and most of the 450 plants are open
The state\'s end mills have begun using recycled fibers. Open-
End mills typically purchase waste cotton from textile mills as raw materials and provide yarn to the loom sets that produce sheets, towels, lungis, home and mops.
Now, their use of regenerated fibers is increasing. According to G.
Arulthi Hi uses recycled fiber and waste cotton at its factory in Coimbatore, a trend that has picked up over the past four years.
About 10% to 20% of yarn from open-
The state\'s end mill is made of recycled fiber (
Recycled mixture of PET fiber and socks waste fiber).
\"We usually buy cotton waste from textile mills and use it as raw material.
The yarn produced by our unit is used in the power loom set.
However, problems such as rising cotton prices and fluctuations in the supply of waste cotton allow us to look at options.
Using recycled fiber instead of 100% of cotton waste, prices and production have increased . \"Arulmozhi says.
Due to the use of waste fiber in socks, the absorption quality of products such as towels is still very good.
Recycled fiber yarn is mainly used for lowprice products.
He added that there is now a high demand for recycled fiber yarn in power loom clusters in northern states.
K. said that in Chennimalai, a cluster of large power looms nearly 85 km kilometers from Coimbatore, 98% of the tapered yarn is recycled fiber yarn. C.
Qian de la cekaran, who has been in the textile industry since 1981.
Selvam, a weavers at Chennimalai, said, \"earlier, we used to get the yarn from the merchant and send it to dye.
It will take two or three weeks.
Now we get the colored yarn.
We can save 10 pounds per kilogram of yarn.
There are 16 to 18 colors.
It goes straight into weaving.
There is no knot in the yarn, so there is a smooth finish on the sheet.
Suresh, another weavers at Melapalayam, said: \"The cost factor\" we have saved costs in terms of labor, dyeing transportation and time. \".
As a result, the productivity is higher, the price of the product is relatively low, and the demand is not reduced, indicating that the product is accepted by consumers.
In the Annasagaram damobury district, there were 1,000 woven small towels.
Due to challenges such as labor shortages and yarn dyeing problems, the number of looms has dropped to about 500.
Now, with the use of recycled fiber yarn increasing, there are about 3,000 functioning looms that have recovered, he said. Chandrasekaran.
Still, there are some tough questions.
Industry insiders said the recycling industry needs sustainable development.
When the cap is recycled into plastic particles, the label removed from the bottle is still waste.
Western countries use global recycling standards to sell clothing made of 100% recycled fibers as sustainable products.
These bottles are provided by unorganized departments.
\"It\'s hard to get enough PET bottles in winter.
The government is not allowed to import waste PET bottles . \"Krishnakumar.
He said: \"There is no government support except for the special consumption tax on recycled fiber . \"Sultania. Mr.
The environment is also expected.
The government will encourage friendly recycling of fiber through concessions.