From UNIQLO recovered plastic bottles to “fast-drying clothes” next spring sale September 17 6:43
UNIQLO, a clothing chain, has developed high-performance clothes with excellent quick-drying using special fibers made from recycled PET bottles, and will start selling them next spring.
This was announced by Fast Retailing, which operates UNIQLO, in London in a joint press conference with Toray, a textile and chemical manufacturer that partnered in product development and production.
According to this, we plan to jointly develop clothes with excellent quick-drying properties using polyester fibers made from collected plastic bottles and sell them at UNIQLO from next spring.
In the fashion industry, there are cases where PET bottles are recycled and used for fleeces, etc., but as a result of improving the technology to remove impurities, special fibers with extremely thin features can be made, which has a high function that has never been seen before It means that it can be used for products.
Companies around the world are strongly demanding “sustainability” for a sustainable society, including consideration for the global environment.
Mr. Tadashi Yanai, Chairman and President of Fast Retailing, told reporters, “We are now asked if sustainability is okay in every business setting. Especially young people are sensitive and make products according to it. "It will be very positive," he said, and indicated a policy of increasing the number of products covered.
UNIQLO has decided to start a business to take down feathers from down jackets that are no longer used and use them in new products, and will appeal the effective use of resources.