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Environment News
Roll out the carpet made from 23,000 PET bottles
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apanese resin supplier Teijin says, for the fourth consecutive year, it has produced an eco-friendly Green Carpet made of PET bottles for the ecologically minded Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF), which will be held from October 22-30.The Green Carpet is made entirely of Teijin's ECOPET recycled polyester fibre produced from used PET bottles. A total of 1,600 m x 90 cm carpet material, equivalent to about 23,000 recycled half-litre PET bottles, will be used for the TIFF, including a green carpet that will replace the conventional red carpet at the opening ceremony in Tokyo's Roppongi Hills complex.
The carpet material also will be used to produce green pen cases for giveaway to customers of Toei Subway as part of a TIFF-related campaign, and to people who attend a TIFF special screening on October 25 in Sendai, one of the cities affected by the March 11 disaster.