BRUSSELS – If all the 18 trillion pounds of plastic that has been produced over the past 70 years was converted into a one-metre-wide 17gsm spunbonded nonwoven, it would stretch to the sun and back 1,600 times.
This was one of the mind-boggling statistics cited by Bryan Haynes, technical director of global nonwovens for Kimberly-Clark at the EDANA Circular Nonwovens Forum held in Brussels on September 22nd, underlining the huge problem of replacing plastics.