Smart N Classic is totally committed to a Lower Carbon Footprint. We're the 1st to introduce laptop Cases and Sleeves constructed of 100% "Post-Consumer" Recycled Material (Plastic PET Bottles) for the outer and inner lining. Additionally - our padding is also Recycled.
Below is the "why" and "how" of our commitment:
Plastic bottles (PET #1) are one of the biggest environmental disasters today.
In the United States alone, 230 bottles per person go to landfill per year.
That's enough crushed bottles to fill the Rose Bowl Stadium in California every two weeks.
These bottles, which are made from petroleum, find their way into landfills, rivers, lakes and roadsides, and they never decompose. The technology exists today to convert these bottles into high-quality, durable fabrics which look and perform equal to their virgin counterparts.
All of our fabrics are made from 100% certified post-consumer PET bottles.
You get a top quality product made from one of the world's most durable fabrics
AND save the planet at the same time.
Bottles are hand sorted by the collector to remove non-PET and other visual impurities.
After sorting bottles are compacted into bales for efficient transport to processing plants. One bale is over 6000 bottles, enough to process into 350 yards of finished fabric.
Bales are ground into a rough material called PET flakes
to be prepared for conversion to a raw material source.
After washing, the highest quality ground flakes are chemically separated from impurities and converted to PET chips through a process known as de-polymerizing and re-polymerizing. Once complete, the resulting fibers can be woven into yarns.
PET fibers are separated by size and fed into yarn twisting machinery.
These yarns are then spooled for use in weaving.
The yarns for the two separate directions of the weave provides fabrics with different characteristics; heavier, lighter, finer, more dense, softer, etc.
Each yard of finished fabric has consumed approximately 18 - 16 oz. bottles
and saved 10,000 Btus from manufacturing
enough power to light a 17 watt compact fluorescent light for 15 hours.
Smart N Classic - with our Re-usable Ice Products - also Conserves Earth's Precious Water Resource. Ideal anywhere but most especially in drought areas.
