Yarn made from recycled baoteping simply cannot match the purity of polyester fiber made from virgin raw materials, and as a result it not only snaps more easily in the manufacturing process, it is more difficult to dye and to print on. The company had to rack its brains throughout the manufacturing process to solve such problems and only produced a successful new product after numerous missed shots.
廖瑞芬指出，「Bottle to Bottle」在歐美國家已是趨勢，使用回收料製成的寶特瓶還會在瓶身上特別標記，儼然是另一種形象廣告；為了搶食環保大餅，眾多飲料大廠甚至自己投資回收事業，如可口可樂公司在美國南卡羅來納州設置的寶特瓶回收工廠，就頗具規模。