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“可持续时尚”正在稳步成为一个流行的时髦词，但除了衣服上的标签之外，其实我们还需要更进一步的解释。

“Sustainable Fashion” is steadily becoming a popular buzzword, but there is often no further explanation beyond the label. 

自2018年以来，P.E.T. Plastic Ecological Transformation一直在用100%回收PET瓶为原材料制造纺织产品。然而，当试图深度了解从塑料瓶到服装的生产过程，我们发现，这个行业一直依赖的再生认证，还存在很多问题。

Since 2018，P.E.T. Plastic Ecological Transformation has been making textile products made from 100% recycled PET bottles. However, in our search to understand the bottle to the garment manufacturing process, we found that fashion brands relied on a certification process that could easily be forged. 

由于整个再生供应链很长，而且不透明，回收的塑料瓶很容易与劣质产品混合。甚至，有追求利润的制造商会购买全新的塑料瓶作为原材料，来制造成“再生”纱线，完全背离了回收的初衷。还有一种情况，为了降低成本，也有制造商没有把回收的瓶子做到符合行业要求的原材料级别，导致无法生产高品质的再生产品。

总而言之，对消费者来说，“我的再生T恤从哪里来，我如何知道它是安全可靠的”，是一个很重要的问题。

As the supply chain is long and opaque, recycled goods could easily become mixed with inferior products. There remain instances where unscrupulous manufacturers purchase new plastic bottles just to recycle them into recycled yarn hence defeating the purpose of recycling. In some, waste was not sterilized to cut cost, and hence affecting the hygiene standards of the recycled product. 

Hence the consumer's question remains: "Where did my recycled t-shirt come from, and how do I know that its safe and reliable?" 

与此同时，许多产品包装上都有标注可循环回收的标识，使消费者误以为，它将被回收再利用。其实事实相去甚远，到2015年为止，世界上只有9%的塑料被回收利用，而大部分塑料都是被焚烧、填埋或倾倒到海洋中。

垃圾分类已经被逐步推广，“我分类和回收的塑料瓶，最后去了哪里，被怎么处理的”，这也是每个人都会关注的问题。

On the other hand, many products have the little triangle recycling label on it, leading consumers to believe that it will hence recycled. That is far from the truth as only 9% of the worlds plastics are recycled, most of it ends up in incineration, landfill or oceans. 

So while waste separation gains traction, consumers also start to ask "where did my plastic bottle in the recycle bingo?"

为了寻求真相，我们开发了P.E.T. 链 —我们自己的基于区块链技术的追溯系统，在从瓶子到颗粒、从纱线到最终产品的每一步中跟踪记录。消费者通过扫描标签上的二维码可以看到很多他们关注的信息。

In the chase for the truth, we developed P.E.T. Chain - our own blockchain-based traceability system to track the raw material throughout every step, as it transforms from bottles to pellets to yarn to end product. The consumer can see the whole process by scanning the QR code on the label. 

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