Cascade Yarns has just introduced 2 lines of yarn with Recycled PET: ReBound and ReVerb.
[SIZE=24px]ReBound[/SIZE][SIZE=20px] [/SIZE]is made from 100% post-consumer recycled materials, 70% Polyester (Recycled PET), 30% [SIZE=24px]Cotton[/SIZE] (Recycled). [INDENT]The care instructions are “Hand wash cold. Lay flat to dry.”
ReBound is assigned a yarn weight of 4, based on Yarn Council guidelines, and skeins contain 164 yards. ReBound shown as being available in 10 colors:[/INDENT]
[INDENT=2]01 - Pearl
02 - Sand
03 - Peach Blossom
04 - Charcoal
05 - Black Plum
06 - Chili
07 - Nectarine
08 - Denim
09 - Teal
10 - Ink[/INDENT]
[INDENT]Three free patterns are offered by Cascade Yarns for the ReBound yarn, and Cascade Yarns asks that readers download, print and share:[/INDENT]
[INDENT=2]A344 Do it Again Cowl
A348 Elycpso (Cowl)
A353 Hat for Ella[/INDENT]
[SIZE=24px]ReVerb[/SIZE][SIZE=20px] [/SIZE]is made from 100% post-consumer recycled materials, 70% Polyester (Recycled PET), 30% [SIZE=24px]Alpaca[/SIZE] (Recycled). [INDENT]Like many alpaca yarns, the care instructions are “Hand wash cold. Lay flat to dry.”[/INDENT]
[INDENT]ReVerb is assigned a yarn weight of 3, based on Yarn Council guidelines, and skeins contain 273 yards. ReVerb shown as being available in 10 yummy colors, representing a subdued, earthy pallete of neutrals:[/INDENT]
[INDENT=2]01 - Oatmeal
02 - Silver
03 - Olive
04 - Jet
05 - Apricot
06 - Navy
07 - Cinnabar
08 - Peach Blossom
09 - Flint
10 -Coffee[/INDENT]
[INDENT]Three free patterns are offered by Cascade Yarns for the ReVerb yarn, and Cascade Yarns asks that readers download, print and share:[/INDENT]
[INDENT=2]DK658 Climbing Wall Hat
DK661 Abundance of Cables Cardigan
DK663 One Row Mobius (scarf)[/INDENT]
What is PET?
[INDENT]PET is described on wikipedia, as recycled bottles.[/INDENT]
[INDENT]A recent email newsletter from LoveCrafts describes:[/INDENT]
“[SIZE=20px]new recycled yarns from Cascade
made using recycled bottles!
1kg of fiber contains 20 plastic bottles!
*approx 20 bottles per 1kg[/SIZE]”
@qfknit - Have you seen it in real life? Touched it? I would be curious to know what it feels like after washing. I’m wondering what happens when someone tosses it in the dryer by mistake. Melts? Yikes, I can picture a dryer disaster. I put a microfiber towel next to my cooktop to catch drips between the pot on the stove and the dish I was ladling into. That towel melted into hard plastic on my cast iron grate. I could not get it off. I even heated the grate up, thinking I could then scrape it off. Nothing worked. Fortunately, I had an extra grate.
Just curious — What processes are used to turn the bottles into yarn?
In a number of communities the largest point source of pollution is the recycling plant. I am all for eco-friendly recycling, but many items cause terrible pollution to recycle and we’d be better off putting into the dump.
I also wondered whether people may be surprised to find they may already own something which was once a plastic bottle!
I believe that if this process of fiber-making is occurring, it is good for people to aware of it. Possibly Consumer Reports or another organization will take a look into these fibers and weigh in on them with some insightful compare/contrast, regarding both manufacturing and use…?
[SIZE=12px]I love the idea, but I agree that recycling itself can cause problems, so I think we need to know a bit more before rushing out and buying. I had a look on Cascade’s site to see if there were any stockists near me (Glasgow, Scotland) so I could have a look in person, but the nearest one is in Maine, USA, so maybe it’s Plan B, then![/SIZE]
@lovestostitch Yes, and some of them have plastic lids that can’t be recycyled anyway
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