Recycle Your jeans and make shoes
Cumbrian based shoe manufacturers Softwalker Ltd have launched a new online business Recycleyourjeans.com which takes in your old jeans and recycles them to create new footwear. Sign up and they'll send you a prepaid envelope for your jeans and a week or two later you'll get some sandals back.
“More than 99% of all footwear sold in the UK has travelled half way around the world before it gets to the consumer, whereas the Kalahari sandals are made locally and so have the lowest transport footprint of any sandal on the market,' says sales and marketing director Cat Stables.
“Our new environmental range has the lowest carbon footprint of any shoes or sandals in the country, and it’s a fun way to personalise your re-cycling. They make a great eco-present for green warriors. Wearing your old jeans on your feet is a more practical statement than just wearing your green heart on your sleeve”.
The footwear are also vegan and simply consist of the old jeans, sewing thread, woven labels and metal buckles.
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great idea!!!
Posted by: miss t jackson | April 16, 2007 6:56 PM