Why Recycled Plastic Bottles are a Key Material for Teddy Bears 🧸 Inside the Factory | Smithsonian

How are Christmas teddy bears made to be so squishy and huggable? It’s all in the stuffing, which comes from an unusual source: recycled plastic bottles, melted down and spun into fibers just as soft as traditional wool stuffing.
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Made bears for all my niece's and nephew's and grandchildren this way...but learning they reuse plastic bottles to make the stuffing brings me SO MUCH JOY. I'M SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW.

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Aaah how sweet, especially if one loves bears 🐻🥰

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I have to admit, that little bear is pretty cute!

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Now I want a teddy bear 😢😜

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