What Rubbish Are You Wearing?

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  Is That Rubbish You're Wearing?

Some of the clothes you wear in your everyday life maybe made out of the plastic and rubbish that you carelessly throw away, your plastic is shipped all around the world where it is made into Polyester a key material in making types of clothes. Here is how your rubbish can be turned into something you might be wearing.

First the plastic bottles are collected and sorted out from the rest of the rubbish. The plastic bottles are then taken to a factory where the leftover liquid from the bottle is drained. Next the emptied bottles are shredded and packed, they are then shipped to different factories all around the world.

Once the plastic has arrived to their separate locations it is sorted out and the lids are put into a bath and are taken away, while this is happening the shredded plastic bottles are put into another bath of corrosive liquid where the labels are removed. The shredded plastic is then put into an oven where they are left to dry, while drying they add coloured plastic to give the shredded plastic a certain colour.

When fully dried the plastic is then removed and put into a rotating screw where it is heated to approximately two hundred and seventy degrees celsius. This shaped the plastic to turn it into a rope where it is then cut up into long thread-like pieces, next the plastic is taken out and combined , while this is happening the plastic is being rapidly heated up and cooled down, this connects the fibers in the plastic together. Once this has happened the plastic is ready for the next set of steps.

The long pieces of thread are then shredded up again, the substance that you get from the shredded thread is the raw substance needed to make polyester. Next the thread is then sent to be carded, a process where metal brushes brush the ripped up thread to make it stronger. The plastic is then turned into long pieces of thread where they are then put into a loom, where it is made into new sheets of polyester.When completed, the polyester is ready for it's final set of steps.

The polyester is then sent to a machine where it makes tiny loops in the fabric, then a steel brush tears the tiny loops up. The shredded loops help give the polyester a soft and comfortable feel. The fabric is then cut into pieces of clothing where it is sent to workers who sew the fabric together to make certain pieces of clothes.

Finally the polyester clothing is sent to countries all around the world, where it is sold in stores and used in everyday life. That is how your  rubbish that you carelessly throw away is turned into something that you use in your everyday life.