How Your Recycled Water Bottle Becomes Home Decor
Are you the kind of person who carries empty bottles for miles until you come across a recycling bin? Do you mull over how to get the plastic and metal pieces of used containers apart, so they can go into the correct bin? If you are then we have a window covering for you!
Recycling works because the items you put into a bin are made into something new and people buy that new thing. Hunter Douglas participates in this process by making attractive, effective shades from a recycled polyester fabric.
The fabric used to make them comes from recycled water bottles. The process is really very interesting and you can read about it in this CNN Tech article. The bottles are shredded and then the plastic is turned into pellets. The textile company extrudes the pellets into polyester yarn and then weaves it into fabric. Depending on the thickness of the yarn and the type of weave, the fabric might be coarse and tough or soft and flexible. These days, you might find be wearing recycled bottles in your jacket or it might be protecting your planner.
Hunter Douglas offers shades made of a recycled product called GreenScreen Revive. Revive is made by Mermet, an Australian fabric manufacturer. The product is certified to be safe, non-polluting and fully recyclable. It’s made from plastic bottles and can go through the process to be recycled again at the end of the life of the window covering.
GreenScreen Revive is tightly woven so that it reduces glare and heat coming through a window, just like any other fabric used for shades. Unlike other fabrics, each square meter of the shade represents 12 water bottles that did not go into a landfill.
Hunter Douglas recycles other pre and post consumer wastes. For example, it uses recycled steel and aluminum in its blinds. In this way, metals that would have been wasted are retrieved and re-used, ultimately reducing the need to mine more metal and forge more steel.
Whether it’s recycled aluminum in blinds or fabric made from recycled bottles, the products derived from these materials look and feel just as beautiful as products made from virgin materials. You will love the way your home looks and you’ll be proud of it, knowing your purchases have made the planet a little cleaner.
Contact us today to learn more about installing beautiful, environmentally sound window coverings in your home!
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