Most of the bottles Closed Loop is currently recycling would otherwise have been shipped to China to be transformed into lower-grade plastic for cheap hard hats, artificial fleeces and the like.

若不是被闭环公司所回收，大多数的瓶子很可能会被运往中国，从而被转化成低级的塑料，用于制作廉价的安全帽、仿羊毛夹克或类似的产品。