The company Melton from Vejen makes rainwear for children from plastic bottles that have been lifted out of the sea.Large concentrations of plastic bottles, straws and shopping bags float around in the sea.The children's clothing company Melton in Vejen wants to do something about this - one rain jacket at a time.In the spring, they will start producing rainwear for children made from some of the millions of plastic bottles that end up in the world's oceans.The children's clothing company Melton collaborates with companies abroad, which are responsible for collecting and remelting the plastic bottles from the world's oceans.The bottles are melted down and polyester thread comes out, in which the rainwear is produced. Although the rainwear is made of plastic, it looks and feels like ordinary rainwear.Melton CEO Helle Ghodt does not believe that plastic pollution can be ignored.- It's awful to watch.Therefore, we have asked ourselves how we can help use the plastic in a different context.Every year, about eight million tonnes of plastic end up in the world's oceans, and at the same time, our consumption of clothing increases.The fashion industry estimates that in 2030 we will buy 60 percent more clothes and shoes than we did in 2015.- As a supplier of children's clothing, we have a responsibility.It is the children who must take over the world after us.That is why we need to be more environmentally conscious, says the director.The Danish Society for Nature Conservation is positive that you can use some of all the plastic in the sea for new products.The association hopes that such projects can contribute to more plastic being collected from the sea.- You give the waste value and make it a resource.That idea is good, says Sine Beuse Fauerby, who is energy and environmental policy senior adviser at the Danish Society for Nature Conservation.But she also explains that there may be risks associated with using plastic in clothing.Among other things, the companies must ensure that, for example, microplastics are not flushed into the environment when the clothes are washed, as has previously been seen with fleece clothes.In addition, plastic from the sea can contain many unwanted substances.So it makes great demands on those who turn the plastic into new products, explains Sine Beuse Fauerby.Melton saw business opportunities in using the plastic bottles from the sea for rainwear, because the production of plastic rainwear is both cheaper and more environmentally friendly for the company.According to the director, about 80 percent less energy is used by making the rainwear from recycled plastic rather than traditional rainwear production made from polyester and oil.Only the oil industry leaves a larger climate footprint than the textile industry.And that is something consumers are aware of, says Helle Goth.- We have daily parents who contact us to hear how we make our products.They are more and more aware of it and therefore we also want to deliver what they demand.Melton is also not the first to convert used plastic bottles into textiles.Herning company Knowledge Cotton Apparel expects to have recycled 4.5 million plastic bottles in their clothes by 2020.At the same time, more and more companies are offering clothes made from organic cotton and other sustainable initiatives.Sine Beuse Fauerby also recognizes the trend.- There has rightly been much more focus on the industry's environmental impact.But it requires a fundamental restructuring of the industry and the introduction of new business models to really change anything.She explains that it is not enough to produce the clothes in an environmentally friendly way.The ring must be closed so that the business model also decides what should happen to the rainwear when the child grows out of it.The collection of plastic rainwear from Melton lands in stores until August.