{"id":191632,"date":"2024-06-23T00:22:26","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T05:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/could-we-recycle-plastic-bags-into-fabrics-of-the-future"},"modified":"2024-06-23T00:22:26","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T05:22:26","slug":"could-we-recycle-plastic-bags-into-fabrics-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/could-we-recycle-plastic-bags-into-fabrics-of-the-future","title":{"rendered":"Could we recycle plastic bags into fabrics of the future?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/could-we-recycle-plastic-bags-into-fabrics-of-the-future2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The only problem with plastic profusion is that \u201crecycling\u201d it is at a \u201ccaveman\u2019s\u201d level!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In considering materials that could become the fabrics of the future, scientists have largely dismissed one widely available option: polyethylene.<\/p>\n<p>The stuff of plastic wrap and grocery bags, polyethylene is thin and lightweight, and could keep you cooler than most textiles because it lets heat through rather than trapping it in. But polyethylene would also lock in water and sweat, as it\u2019s unable to draw away and evaporate moisture. This antiwicking property has been a major deterrent to polyethylene\u2019s adoption as a wearable <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/textile\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">textile<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, MIT engineers have spun polyethylene into fibers and yarns designed to wick away moisture. They wove the yarns into silky, lightweight fabrics that absorb and evaporate water more quickly than common textiles such as cotton, nylon, and polyester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only problem with plastic profusion is that \u201crecycling\u201d it is at a \u201ccaveman\u2019s\u201d level! In considering materials that could become the fabrics of the future, scientists have largely dismissed one widely available option: polyethylene. The stuff of plastic wrap and grocery bags, polyethylene is thin and lightweight, and could keep you cooler than most [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":677,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}