Recycled t-shirts from Coca-Cola

10/04/2008
Wal-Mart customers will be able to buy sustainable clothing from the Coca-Cola 'Drink 2 Wear' line in the near future. The supermarket will sell a range of colourful t-shirts made from recycled plastic bottles and bearing slogans such as 'Make your Plastic Fantastic' and 'Rehash your Trash'.

The drinks company hopes that the design of and messages on the men’s and women’s t-shirts will promote recycling of used beverage bottles into renewable, reusable products. Graphics stamped on the inside of each shirt shows a plastic bottled being recycled and remind consumers to “re-fulfil a bottle’s destiny and become something great again“.

Each shirt in the men’s line features a '4 Inside' neck label to show how many PET bottles were reused to make it, while the women’s t-shirt features a '3 Inside' label.

Vice president, marketing Coca-Cola North America, Stuart Kronauge, says: “These fun t-shirts merge trend with consciousness, reminding shoppers that small steps – like recycling a few bottles – can go a long way towards helping to preserve our environment.”