{"id":535954,"date":"2022-11-14T11:46:58","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T06:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=535954"},"modified":"2022-11-14T11:46:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T06:16:58","slug":"ioc-to-recycle-20m-plastic-bottles-into-fabric-for-uniforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ioc-to-recycle-20m-plastic-bottles-into-fabric-for-uniforms\/","title":{"rendered":"IOC to recycle 20m plastic bottles into fabric for uniforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s largest oil refiner and fuel retailer IndianOil has launched a project to recycle more than 20 million discarded plastic bottles weighing about 405 tonne per year into yarn for making polycotton fabric as part of the company\u2019s climate commitment and net zero plan.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, the fabric will be used for making uniforms with \u201cGo Green\u201d message for the company\u2019s 10 lakh petrol pump attendants and LPG delivery personnel to spread awareness about reducing waste. The bottles will be collected by an aggregator for deriving yarn which will be turned into cotton-mixed fabric for uniforms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOil industry is a major carbon emitter. This cannot be helped (due to the very nature of the industry). IndianOil has pledged to become net-zero by 2046. These eco-friendly uniforms will shine as our green commitment. The conversion of plastic bottles into fabric is a beautiful example of how diligent handling of problems opens doors to new opportunities,\u201d company chairman S M Vaidya said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s largest oil refiner and fuel retailer IndianOil has launched a project to recycle more than 20 million discarded plastic bottles weighing about 405 tonne per year into yarn for making polycotton fabric as part of the company\u2019s climate commitment and net zero plan. Initially, the fabric will be used for making uniforms with \u201cGo Green\u201d message for the company\u2019s 10 lakh petrol pump attendants and LPG delivery personnel to spread awareness about reducing waste. The bottles will be collected by an aggregator for deriving yarn which will be turned into cotton-mixed fabric for uniforms. \u201cOil industry is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,219,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}