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More than 60 per cent of the world's people depend directly on plants for their medicines.

Plastic bottles (PET #1) are one of the biggest environmental disasters today. In the United States alone, 230 bottles per person go to landfill per year. That's enough crushed bottles to fill the Rose Bowl Stadium in California every two weeks.

Bottles are separated by the collector to remove non-PET type bottles. This saves steps in the refinement process later. These bottles are compacted and bailed for efficient transport and lower fuel costs. One bale is over 6000 bottles, enough to process into 350 yards of finished fabric.

Bales are ground into a rough material called PET flakes. After washing, the highest quality ground flakes are chemically separated from impurities and converted to PET chips through a process known as de-polymerizing and re-polymerizing. Once complete, the resulting fibers can be woven into yarns.

PET fibers are separated by size and fed into yarn twisting machinery. The process of converting fibers to yarns has changed little over the centuries except to become more automated. Depending on fiber size. Fibers of specific size determine the size (denier) of the resulting yarns. These yarns are then spooled for use in weaving.

Little has changed over the centuries with the process of weaving yarn into fabric using looms. The yarns for the two separate directions of the weave provides fabrics with different characteristics; heavier, lighter, finer, more dense, softer, etc. The final result is then inspected.