Teijin Ltd., based in Tokyo, has announced that for the third consecutive year, it has produced an eco-friendly ”green carpet” made of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles for the Tokyo International Film Festival, being held Oct. 23-31.
The green carpet is made entirely of Teijin Fibers’ ECOPET recycled polyester fiber produced from PET bottles. A 200-meter-by-2.7-meter portion of the green carpet, actually three 90-centimeter wide carpets laid side by side, will stretch from Keyakizaka-dori, one of Tokyo’s most glamorous streets, to the Roppongi Hills shopping and event complex, where the film festival will take place.
In total, Teijin produced 1,600 meters of 90-centimeter wide material, or the equivalent of some 23,000 recycled half-liter PET bottles. Other portions of the green carpet will be used in various locations around the festival venue. In addition, the green carpet material was used to produce re-usable “Eco-bag” shopping bags for giveaway to festival guests and “green coasters” for giveaway to customers of Toei Subway as part of its promotional campaign.
Teijin also will provide a number of other items for the festival, including “green ties”, “greenchief” handkerchiefs and “green ribbons” for guests as well as jackets for festival staffers. These items were produced with eco-friendly Eco Circle™ fibers, which are chemically recycled fibers produced from used polyester products. Made with Teijin’s proprietary Eco Circle chemical-recycling system, the fibers offer quality equal to that of products made directly from petroleum, the company says.
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