A fan site dedicated to the worst product from the U of M » Plastic Bottle Jerseys http://rickrickert.com Rick Rickert Blows Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:48:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Plastic Bottle Shirts http://rickrickert.com/2010/02/26/plastic-bottle-shirts/ http://rickrickert.com/2010/02/26/plastic-bottle-shirts/#comments Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:25:16 +0000 RicketyRickert http://rickrickert.com/?p=1296 There are 2 things that I dislike in the world.

  1. Soccer
  2. Hippies

But a funny thing happened today, I read an article dealing with both of these things and I really liked the idea.  It’s like multiplying by negative numbers!

For this years World Cup (I think it’s this year) the 9 teams sponsored by Nike will all be wearing jerseys made from recycled plastic bottles.  A Taiwanese supplier  cuts up, melts, and spins plastic bottles into a yarn for the shirts.  Each shirt will consist of 100% recycled polyester and approximately eight plastic bottles.  Nike is also using 13 million plastic bottles to produce jerseys for fans.  In total Nike’s initiative will stop 560,000 pounds of polyester waste from being dumped in landfills.   Cool right?  Maybe for the next World Cup the can use this technique to make the soccer scarves that white people love to wear.  Go Soccer!

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