Ayelet Waldman

Gym class was, of course, where the strongest, best-looking kids were made captains and chose us spazzes last. More important, it was where the figures of supposed authority allowed them to do so. Forget the work our parents did molding our minds and values. Everything fell apart as soon as we put on those maroon polyester gym suits.

Israeli Novelist

Kristin Bauer van Straten

One lesson I got from Gandhi, 'Be the change you want to see,' haunts me. I just feel like I can't keep stomping around pointing the finger at BP when I am supporting the oil industry with my very own dollars and actions by buying their products, helping to pay their mortgage - plastic is from oil... polyester, shower curtains.

American Actress

Chris Hardwick

While the liberal media elite depict the bowler as a chubby guy with a comb-over and polyester pants, the reality is that bowling is one of the most tech-heavy sports today. Robotic pinsetters and computerized scoring were just the beginning.

American Comedian

Colleen Atwood

I grew up in the age of polyester. When I got to touch real silk, cotton and velvet, the feel of nonsynthetic fabrics blew me away. I know it's important how clothing looks, but it's equally important how it feels on your skin.

American Designer

Tatiana Schlossberg

Polyester, one of the most common fibers, is a plastic derived from crude oil. The long fibers that make up polyester thread are woven together to make fabric. Extracting the oil and melting the plastic require energy.

Joe Scarborough

I don't want to return to the past. I don't yearn for when I was 18 years old. I was in high school then. I had acne. I had a terrible hairdo. I'm sure I was sporting polyester pants.

American Politician

Patti Smith

A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked flannel and not polyester.

American Musician

Issey Miyake

Polyester is easy to work with and results in clothing that is well suited to the needs of a modern lifestyle.

Japanese Designer

Jonathan Van Ness

I've worn a 100% polyester cheerleading outfit in stadiums full of people - it is pretty hard to embarrass me.

American Entertainer

Jay R. Ferguson

Let me just tell you this: I love polyester.

American Actor

Polyester fabrics are often smooth, lightweight, and slightly stretchy.

Texture Feel

Polyester is popular because it doesn't wrinkle easily and maintains shape.

Wrinkle Resistant

Polyester is durable, machine washable and dries quickly, which makes it maintenance-friendly.

Easy Care

Beyond textiles, polyester is used in manufacturing various industrial products.

Industrial Uses

Polyester is recyclable and often used to create sustainable products from recycled plastic.

Recyclability

Polyester forms durable films and coatings for packaging to protect goods.

Packaging Material

 In the measure that you have the source code, as all of you know, you can change the source code, and you can reprogram life forms so that this little thingy becomes a vaccine, or this little thingy starts producing biomaterials, which is why DuPont is now growing a form of polyester that feels like silk in corn.

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 microbeads and that was all because of this little bit of research the next bit of research that I did was looking at washing our clothes and most of you sat here in the audience a day I'm sorry but you're wearing plastic this could be polyester acrylic or polyester cotton blend in the mechanical nature of the

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 who were not engineers. It was an artisan who knows how to make things and an artist who knows how to make things beautiful. Working with them, we created one of the best yarns in the world, which consists of thin metallic alloys wrapped around with polyester fibers and cotton fibers.

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 That's the same kind of light used at black light parties and airport security lines. The polyester strip printed with invisble ink is just one millimeter wide and is found in different positions depending on a bill's value. If you hold your dollar up to natural light,

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 with a cotton outer core and a polyester cover the crew will check each rope manually every single day and the ropes are decommissioned after around a thousand bounces once the cord is all hooked up it's time for a test bounce the test uses ordinary gym weights tied

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 It's called your closet. And your closet is full of all kinds of materials -- cotton, leather, nylon, polyester -- that list goes on and on. And those materials matter, because those materials are the reason fashion is in the midst of a sustainability crisis.

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 are usually made from synthetic textiles like polyester, nylon, latex, and polyurethane. Mining the fossil fuels that make up these materials emits tons of greenhouse gases. And processing those raw ingredients into synthetic textiles

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 quick-setting polyester resin this makes the whole durable and virtually impenetrable to the water the gel coat also contains a pigment which gives the hall its color the bottom part of this hall will be white in just how thick are

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 which has a lower carbon footprint than cotton or paper. These sturdy shopping bags consist of polyester, vinyl and other tough plastics, and are already used worldwide. Most importantly, they should last a lifetime—

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 everything. And then the next thing that I needed was a makeover. So out went the green scrubs, and in came the polyester and floral prints.