How are various materials recycled?

How to make clothes out of recycled materials?

• Answer:

  What immediately pops to mind is tire sandals. Here's one page with instructions and links to other instructions: http://www.instructables.com/id/Tire-Sandals-a-guide-to-comfy-hand-crafted-footwe/ You can fuse plastic bags and use the resulting "fabric" to make clothing. Here's one page with instructions: http://www.oureverydayearth.com/turn-your-used-plastic-bags-into-clothing/ You can cut plastic bags into strips and use them to knit or crochet, and some of those projects look really good. Here's a page with instructions for both types of recycling: http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2007/08/plastic_bag_crafts.html And of course, he can start with fabric clothing and simply alter it to fit his new purpose. Those jeans he wore the knees out of? They can become shorts by cutting them above the ripped knees and hemming them. He may want to sew on or glue on patches for his favorite "characters" (Cars, Thomas the Tank Engine, Spiderman, etc.) He can take 2 T-shirts that he outgrew and combine them to make a bigger shirt.