Making clothes from plastic debris found at sea

About 400 kg per square kilometre: this, according to estimates, is the amount of mostly plastic waste littering European seas. Some of it can be upcycled into high-quality clothing, claimed a Spanish SME, which carried out an EU-funded feasibility study to work out the details. And indeed, such garments are now available in its shops.

Source: EUROPA - Research Information Centre - April 12, 2018 Category: Research Source Type: news