In this Olympic Games, the US men's basketball team passed five hurdles and defeated six players, and finally succeeded in winning the gold medal! Compared with their outstanding record, the jerseys of the US men's basketball team are also awesome! do you know? The jerseys they wore in this game were made of used plastic bottles!
In this competition, the Dream Team’s jerseys are divided into blue and white. The upper body is extremely light and close-fitting! Their raw material, plastic bottles, are processed through a series of processes such as disinfection and sterilization, and then steam cutting technology is used to turn them into small flakes. Finally, thermal dissolution technology is used to turn these flakes into yarn used to make jerseys. Wire.
Compared with the 2008 Olympic Games jersey, the weight of the US team jersey for this Rio Olympics is 51% lighter, and the breathability is increased by 35%.
Turn waste into treasure, technology changes life! In fact, it is not uncommon to use plastic bottles as raw materials for jerseys. Since 2012, jersey manufacturers have used this technology for the production of basketball jerseys. For this reason, they have reserved 3 billion clinker bottles for the future. of jersey manufacturing.