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PM Modi's sustainable fashion-wear, dons jacket from recycled PET bottles
The company will recycle discarded other plastic materials for making fab-
plastic PET bottles to manufacture ric, all the discarded bottles are first
Uniforms for Retail Customer At- washed, dired and crushed into small
tendants and LPG delivery personnel. chips. The uniform shaped tiny plas-
Each set of the uniform made by the tic chips are then heated and passed
company for its employee will help through a spinneret to turn them into
in recycling around 28 PET bottles, polyester staple fibre. This fibre made
claims the company. from waste plastic gets its fluffy, wool-
nder its Green Initiative of Sus-
Utainable Garments, Indian Oil How 'Unbottled' will help in recy- ly texture in crimpin machine. Later,
makes garments from recycled PET cling polyester? the polyester staple fibre is spun to
produce yarn which is further knitted
bottles. Company's flagship uniform Apart from recycling PET bottles or woven into polyester fabric.
brand for its employees, ‘Unbottled’, into employees' uniforms, the com-
was launched by Prime Minister Nar- pany has planned to recycle polyes- The integrated oil company has
endra Modi during the India Energy ter through its sustainable garments launched initiatives like sustainable
Week on Monday. brand ‘Unbottled’. Under this initia- clothing, solar cooker, etc to achieve
As a part of making environment tive, the company will make uniforms the goal of environment protection by
reducing carbon footprint.
friendly uniforms and its target to for the customer attendants of other
become carbon neutral by 2046, the Oil Marketing Companies(OMCs), The PET recycling will help the com-
company has vowed to recycle 10 non-combat uniforms for Army, uni- pany in reducing import burden of
crore PET bottles. The company also forms/dresses for Institutions and fossil feedstock. PET recycling rec-
announced to recycle as much as 100 sales to retail customers. quires around 59% less energy for
million discarded mineral water, cold Journey of PET bottle's transfor- production compared to virgin PET
drink and other PET bottles annu- mation into a garment (made from fossil sources) and has
ally to make eco-friendly uniforms for around 79% lower carbon footprint.
staff, reported PTI. For the utilisation of PET bottles and

UNDP India launches campaign to drive an inclusive circular economy

Key features of the campaign: • Partnership with the Private
sector:g. Hindustan Unilever
• The project is a scale-up of exist-
ing partnership under UNDP’s Limited (HUL) will also help build
flagship Plastic Waste Man- the capacities of Urban Local
agement Programme to devel- Bodies for adopting the MRFs or
op a sustainable model for plastic Swachhata Kendra
waste management in India • Collaborations: The project is a
• End-to-end management of collaboration between municipal
plastic waste by promoting: corporations, corporates, Safai
Saathis, and people to work to-
o Segregation of waste at the gether for cleaner and greener
source cities.

he United Nations Development o Collection of the segregated 7 Pillars of Circular Economy:
TProgramme (UNDP) launched a waste Initiatives towards Circular
campaign to drive an inclusive circu- o Setting up Material Recovery Economy:
lar economy as part of its initiative to Facilities (MRFs) for recy-
promote sustainability. cling all kinds of plastic waste • Global:

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