Label and method of manufacturing the same from recycled material

A plurality of brand identification labels made from a woven edge tape, comprising;

• a continuous woven material of recycled PET composed of approximately one hundred percent of post consumer waste material and having a 75 denier yarn in warp direction;
• a planar surface including at least 90% of a surface area of the woven material;
• first and second fused edges running parallel to a machine direction, the first and second edges extending above and below the planar surface and each having a width of about 0.7 mm to 0.8 mm;
• the woven material having regularly spaced intervals sized for individual brand identifiers;
• the planar surface having printed indicia wherein the printed indicia are provided by one of direct thermal, thermal transfer, hot stamping or combination thereof;
• wherein the material is able to be visibly authenticated as being made from recycled material by applying an identifier visible to a human eye to the planar surface of the woven edge tape;
• and
• the woven material is first fused with a plurality of fusing elements and then cut with a plurality of slitting elements at the regularly spaced intervals along a length of woven material to create the individual brand identification, and the woven materials is converted at runs speeds from approximately 90 to approximately 180 feet/min.