Nike Wc Shirts Made Of Plastic

National teams sponsored by Nike will be wearing shirts made of old plastic bottles at the World Cup in South Africa.

Nike said the shirts for the nine national teams that wear its kits, including Brazil, would be made from polyester recycled from used bottles.

Each shirt would use up to eight plastic bottles retrieved from Japanese and Taiwanese landfill sites.

All of the nine teams, who also include Portugal, Netherlands and the United States, will wear the shirts.

Nike says they will keep players drier and cooler than previous kit while reducing energy consumption in manufacture by 30% compared to normal polyester.

Manufacture of the shirts, which will also be sold to fans, used 13 million plastic bottles – enough to fill 29 football pitches.