My boyfriend recently graduated from Wake Forest University...and when he walked across the stage, we wore a graduation gown made COMPLETELY from recycled plastic bottles. Pretty Cool, huh? I thought so!Then, come to find out, Salem College's Class of 2012 has also adopted this new intuitive and will be purchasing these gowns for the next graduating class! How exciting!
This new line of graduation wear, named "GreenWeaver" is made of fabric spun from molten plastic pellets. The result is a fabric so comfortably soft you have to feel it to believe it! It takes an average of 23 bottles to make each gown.
Today, here are the statistics:
5% of today's colleges and universities support GreenWeaver
310,000 graduates have worn, or plan to wear, GreenWeaver gowns this year as they graduate
7,130,000 bottles have been removed from the landfill to make these gowns
How's that for reducing our ecological footprint?!?
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