Jo D'Angelo is an attestor
That used plastic bottles,
Whatever they bottled,
Make a fine polyester.
The Roanoke Times, 6 May 2009:
A Salem company is poised to turn recycled plastic into graduation gowns.
Cut from different cloth
"D'Angleo and Hodges said customer inquiries and the company's own environmental concerns helped lauch Oak Hall's exploration of producing gowns and mortarboards from recycled materials."
"But a 'spork' played a role."
"Aboutr 15 months ago, D'Angelo said, he paused during lunch on a college campus to muse about his biodegradable utensil -- a marriage of spoon and fork."
"'If a spork can be environmentally friendly, why not a graduation gown?' he wondered."
"At first, at Oak Hall's direction, a company supplier experimented with fabric from bamboo."
"'It was terrible,' D'Angelo said."
"Easily wrinkled, the material quickly resembled Shar-Pei."
"Next came plastic from recycled bottles."
"Fourteen months of development yielded GreenWeaver, a fabric that feels lik ployester cloth. Oak Hall said it is the only company in the cap-and-gown business poised to manufacture gowns from recycled plastic."
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