Innovación en la cadena de suministro del sector textil mediante la implementación del reciclaje de botellas PET

Abstract

La presente investigación surge de la preocupación que tiene la empresa Plastic Planet Ecology, por La contaminación plástica en nuestros territorios y en general en todo el planeta donde habitamos, este problema ha ido en aumento en el tiempo por el rápido crecimiento en la producción y uso del plástico en Colombia.

Plastic materials are formed by carbon atoms derived from natural raw materials such as cellulose, coal, natural gas, salt or oil, due to its malleability and/or plasticity, it has become the preferred material for manufacturing. of containers for all kinds of products because they are very easy and very cheap to produce, for the same reason our planet has become a planet of plastic, according to environmental organizations such as Greenpeace, they have calculated that since 1950 8,000 million tons of plastic have been generated. plastics, a weight equivalent to 10,000 Eiffel Tower or 80 million blue whales. However, the scariest fact is that only half of this plastic garbage has been generated in the last 13 years, which indicates that our garbage is growing exponentially.