EcoSpun is a high-quality polyester fiber which has been developed by the U.S. company Wellman Inc. Many different fabrics are made using EcoSpun, including fleece fabrics which are warm, durable, weather resistant, lightweight and comfortable. They are very soft to the touch. One would never guess the source of the fiber - recycled plastic pop bottles! Benefits | Wellman has the capacity to keep almost 3 billion plastic PET soda bottles out of the world's landfills each year, saving over 1/2 million barrels of oil and eliminating 400,000 tons of harmful air emissions which contribute to acid rain, global warming and smog. The amount of petroleum saved by using post-consumer bottles instead of virgin materials in the manufacturing process annually is enough to supply power to a city the size of Atlanta for an entire year! |
EcoSpun has been independently certified by Scientific Certification Systems, the U.S. leader in evaluating environmental claims. All testing standards have been met, including strength, shrinkage and color fastness. |  | Wellman has won numerous environmental awards for the development of EcoSpun. For more information, you can visit their website at Wellman, Inc. EcoSpun delivers a soft, luxurious, color-fast product without depleting the Earth's natural resources, without herbicides or pesticides and without extensive energy use. The plastic is technically called polyethylene terephthalate (PET). |
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