Fab Fabrics: Hemp/Recycled PET Blend

You’ve seen plastic bottles turned into lovely felt. Check out this awesome hemp blend that’s 45% fiber from plastic soda bottles!

[Creative Commons photo by Kevin Wong]
This cool fabric comes in five different colors right now: cantaloupe, mint, blueberry, guava, and banana. Each piece helps keep plastic bottles out of the waste stream! You can snag it by the yard over at Green Depot’s shop.

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According to the folks at Green Depot:

The process has the capacity to keep almost 3 billion plastic PET soda bottles out of the world’s landfills each year, saving over 1/2 million barrels of oil and eliminating 400,000 tons of harmful air emissions which contribute to acid rain, global warming and smog. The amount of petroleum saved by using post-consumer bottles instead of virgin materials in the manufacturing process annually is enough to supply power to a city the size of Atlanta for an entire year!

That’s a big impact! I’m really drawn to the buttery banana color. It has a lineny look, but the Green Depot folks say it doesn’t wrinkle like linen does. The 55%/45% Hemp/PET blend goes for $7.50 per yard.

They stock some other cool-looking sustainable fabrics at Green Depot, too! Their hemp terry cloth would be great for making bibs or kitchen towels. They’ve also got a nice selection of organic cotton knits.

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