Making sustainable car seats from recycled plastic bottles

Skoda has developed a sustainable yarn created from recycled plastic bottles. Photo: AFP

Car manufacturers are making efforts to include more recycled materials in the construction of their new models. The latest example is Skoda, which is introducing seat covers made from wool and recycled disposable bottles in its Enyaq iV.

The automaker is working with suppliers and the scientific community on various innovative materials that will then be used in mass production.

For these seat covers, the Czech carmaker combined wool with recycled polyester from disposable polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles.

To create the fabric, bottles are crushed, melted and then turned into granules. These granules are then used to make a yarn, which is the basis for this particularly strong fabric.