World Cup 2010: goals, glamour and recycled bottles

Feb 25, 2010

Football fans will be unlikely to notice the difference – Brazil will still be playing in their iconic yellow strip, Portugal's Ronaldo will be garbed in red and the Dutch will, as always, be playing in orange.

But the shirts worn by many of the world's leading footballers at this summer's World Cup in South Africa will be different in one crucial respect – each of them will have been made from up to eight recycled plastic bottles.

Late yesterday, Nike unveiled the shirts that will be worn by the players and fans of the eight national teams it sponsors, confirming that whatever the colour of the shirts they will be greenest to date.

"With today's announcement, we are equipping athletes with newly designed uniforms that not only look great and deliver performance benefits, but are also made with recycled materials, creating less impact on our environment," said Charlie Denson, Nike brand president.

The company said that its fabric suppliers sourced discarded plastic bottles from Japanese and Taiwanese landfill sites and then melted them down to produce new yarn that was ultimately converted to fabric for the jerseys.

Source: Business Green

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