Students playing their part in ensuring a healthy future by wearing uniforms made from recycled plastic bottles

Students across Wakefield, Hemsworth and Normanton are doing their bit for the environment by wearing uniforms made from recycled plastic bottles to ensure they ‘inherit a healthy future’.
Each blazer saves around 36 plastic bottles from ending up in a landfill site and 19 bottles per pair of boys trousersEach blazer saves around 36 plastic bottles from ending up in a landfill site and 19 bottles per pair of boys trousers
Each blazer saves around 36 plastic bottles from ending up in a landfill site and 19 bottles per pair of boys trousers

The issue of sustainability is being taught across each of the Outwood Grange Academies, and thanks to uniform supplier, Truetex, each of the secondary academies’ students wear blazers and trousers that are made by using fabric that has been manufactured from recycled drinks bottles.

The Outwood Grange Academies Trust provides every child who joins the school with a free set of uniform, including their blazer.

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As a result of this initiative, the schools have helped save 600,000 plastic bottles from ending up in landfill.

Students across Wakefield, Hemsworth and Normanton are doing their bit for the environment by wearing uniforms made from recycled plastic bottlesStudents across Wakefield, Hemsworth and Normanton are doing their bit for the environment by wearing uniforms made from recycled plastic bottles
Students across Wakefield, Hemsworth and Normanton are doing their bit for the environment by wearing uniforms made from recycled plastic bottles

Each Trutex blazer saves around 36 plastic bottles from ending up in a landfill site and 19 bottles per pair of boys trousers.

Katy Bradford, Chief Operating Officer at the Outwood Family, said: “At Outwood we are passionate about the environment and promoting the importance of sustainability.

“We are delighted that working with Trutex, we have again managed to save over 600,000 plastic bottles from ending up in landfill having managed a similar figure the previous academic year.

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“Our vision is students first, and this goes beyond the classroom for us.

The students of today are the adults of tomorrow and it’s our duty to ensure we do all we can to make sure the world they inherit is a healthy one.”

The plastic bottles go through a process to make recycled chips which are melted and extruded to make yarn.

The yarn is then woven into the high quality fabric that is used to make the Outwood blazer.

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Outwood Grange Academy saved 43,586 plastic bottles from landfill, Outwood Academy City Fields saved 11,352, Outwood Academy Freeston saved 19,539 and Outwood Academy Hemsworth saved 24,155.

Matthew Easter, CEO at Trutex said: “Outwood is a long-term and highly valued partner of our business and has contributed a huge amount towards the 9 million bottles Trutex save every year from landfill.

“As a carbon neutral business we’re always looking at innovative ways to reduce environmental waste and look forward to working with Outwood in the future to continue this work.”