Universal Textile Technologies (UTT) has taken on a new initiative to include bottles collected from Grand Teton National Park into its manufacturing process. Termed the PET Park Project, UTT is working with Grand Teton National Park, Teton County Solid Waste and Recycling, CPE Inc. and the United Soybean Board. UTT converts the collected plastic bottles into non-woven fleece material used to manufacture environmentally friendly backing for carpet and synthetic turf products.
The PET Park Project helps Grand Teton meet their recycling goals by significantly reducing the number of bottles that go to the landfill and educates the millions of visitors to the park anually. UTT also uses renewable soybean-based polyols in re-purposing the plastic bottles into material. Unlike other plastic recycling projects UTT converts its material stateside, not overseas. This difference creates American jobs and reduces transportation emissions.
According to Doug Giles, director of marketing for UTT, only a fifth of plastic bottles are currently recycled in America.
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