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Nike thinks "green" with the new club kits for 2010-2011 season!
With the World Cup just a recent memory, it's time to turn our eyes to the kick off of the Barclays Premier League and Spanish La Liga!
NIKE, Inc. has just launched the new club kits for Man U, Arsenal and Barcelona. And for the first time ever, the new shirts are made entirely from recycled polyester, with each shirt directly produced from up to eight plastic water bottles found at waste disposal sites in Japan and Taiwan. The bottles are thoroughly cleaned, reduced to tiny flakes, melted into a yarn and spun for kit fabrication. This new manufacturing process reduces energy consumption by up to 30% compared to manufacturing traditional polyester.
With the new manufacturing process, Nike has saved nearly 13 million plastic water bottles, a total of around 254,000 kg of polyester waste that can take up to 500 years to naturally decompose. Every recycled bottle used to make these kits laid from top to bottom would cover over 3,000 kilometers, or 29 football pitches!
Plus the new Nike Dri-FIT kits are 13% lighter than previous kits and have enhanced breathability up to 7%! Keep up the good work, Nike!