Woven Edge Double Face Polyester 100% Recycled Satin White Ribbon – 2 Colour Rotary Custom Print – 1000m

100% Recycled Satin White Ribbon

This is a ribbon made from recycled polyester textiles. The textiles to produce this ribbon are collected from garment cutting room floors around China & clothing collection points such as public service buildings (e.g. police stations and schools) where the uniforms are made from 100% polyester.

The garments are then processed to remove any zips, buttons or other trims. The garments and off cut textiles are then shredded.  They are then passed through a heat tunnel, which slightly melts the polyester into dense balls. The chemical process then depolymerises the polyester back into its chemical building blocks. This allows contaminants, such as dyes, to be removed. This mixture of dyes and residual chemical waste is flammable and is sold as a commodity.

The chemical building blocks are repolymerised to form a near virgin quality polyester which is extruded into chips. These chips are then melted, extruded and weaved into this recycled polyester ribbon.