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Fortrel® EcoSpun® is made of from 100% recycled plastic bottles and has set the standard by which all other environmentally-friendly fibers are judged. Because it is clearly pro-environment in its raw material source and in its manufacturing process.
EcoSpun delivers a soft, luxurious, color-fast product without depleting the Earth's natural resources, without herbicides or pesticides and without extensive energy use.
Fortrel® and EcoSpun® are registered trademarks of Wellman, Inc .
You'll be amazed that some of our recycled promotional products are made from the soft drink bottles pictured below!
Some of the products we carry that are made of recycled soft drink bottles include:
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- P.E.T. 6" molded Rulers
- P.E.T. Key Tags
- P.E.T. molded Coasters
Fortrel® EcoSpun™ is a trademark
of Wellman Inc.
For information on the products listed above, call 1-800-778-5420 or email Sales@weisenbach.com.
NEW! PET Ad - Clip
Once a recycled lanyard, always a recycled lanyard. Right?…WRONG!
To kick things up a notch, Weisenbach Specialty Printing has developed the NEW PET Ad–Clip! (patent pending) This product can be made from 100% post consumer P.E.T. soda bottles or post-industrial P.E.T. scraps, and loops onto a lanyard. The PET Ad–Clip can be custom labeled and has a bulldog clip to hold your ID, name tag, or badge pass. This item is perfect for tradeshow passes or employee ID badges. Plus, it can hold a pen or two!
For pricing or questions regarding the PET Ad–Clip please contact us at 1-800-778-5420.
The Invention of the Plastic Bottle
“Nathaniel C. Wyeth was born in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, on the family homestead of the painter N. C. Wyeth. While the child brother, Andrew, and his sisters, Henriette and Carolyn, studied art under the tutelage of their famous father, Nathaniel took clocks apart and made gadgets out of scrap metal. Originally named Newell Convers Wyeth, after his father, the young, technically inclined tinkerer soon had his first name changed to Nathaniel, after an uncle who was an engineer, so as to be less encumbered by identification with a prominent artist. He studied engineering at the University of Pennsylvania and then had a long and illustrious career with the Du Pont Corporation, culminating in 1975, when he became the first person to hold the company’s highest technical position of senior engineering fellow.
Probably foremost among Wyeth’s many inventions in such areas as textiles and electronics is the now ubiquitous plastic soda bottle, which he developed I the mid-1970s after extensive experiments with processing polyethylene terephthalate, more familiarly called PET. Such a bottle would have obvious advantages over the then conventional glass bottle, which was of course heavy and breakable. But the development of the PET bottle did not come easily; Wyeth recalls showing the misshapen results of an early experiment to the laboratory director, who wondered about spending so much money to get such a “terrible-looking bottle.” Wyeth who was pleased that the thing was at least hollow, persisted in his efforts, however, using as he did in al his inventions, his “failures and the knowledge of things that wouldn’t work as a springboard to new approaches.” He was quite explicit about the way an idea progressed from terrible looking things to bottles displayed proudly I supermarkets: “If I invented anything.” Whatever one may think of the plastic bottle, the thing does fulfill the objective of replacing glass bottles. That Wyeth’s achievement now presents environmental problems for other inventors to solve should come as no surprise in an imperfect world of imperfect things.
Regardless of their background and motivation, all inventors appear to share the quality of being driven by the real or perceived failure of existing things or processes to work as well as they might. Fault-finding with the made world around them and disappointment with the inefficiency with which things are done appear to be common traits among inventors and engineers generally. They revel in problems-those they themselves identify in the everyday things they use, or those they work on for corporations, clients, and friends. Inventors are not satisfied with things as they are; inventors are constantly dreaming of how things might be better.
This is not to say that inventors are pessimists. On the contrary, they are supreme optimists, for they pursue innovation with the belief that they can improve the world, or at least the things of the world. Inventors do not believe in leaving well enough alone, for well enough is not good enough for them. But, also being supreme pragmatists, they realize that they must recognize limits to improvement and the trade-offs that must accompany it. Credible inventors know the limitations of the world too, including its thermodynamic laws of conservation of energy and growth of entropy. They do not seek perpetual-motion machines or fountains of youth but, rather, strive to do the best with what they have and for the best they know they can have, and they always recognize that they can never have everything.”
Petroski, H. (1994). The Evolution of Useful Things. (1st ed.). New York: Vintage Books.
for more fun, visit The National Plastics Center and Museum
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