Recycled Fabric Rugs and Walmart Joins the Recycled Tshirt Product Party

 

I need bathroom and kitchen rugs. I’ve purchased some in the past and my loving husband has destroyed them (one suspects this may have been with purpose). I did poke through Goodwill yesterday and came up with one useable brown rug, but that was it so I’m planning to make my own this weekend. I was doing some research on recycling fabric into rugs and found these great tutorials: making braided rugs from recycled denim and the sewn denim rug. I also found some great inspiration for recyled tshirt rugs in Generation T: 108 Ways to Transform a T-Shirt. These are all great ideas so I’ll get to work and see how it goes. However, what I found most interesting was that Walmart, usually the antithesis of my recycled DIY lifestyle sells recycled tshirt shag rugs! It’s not exactly DIY, but at least they are offering recycled cloth products. Perhaps this is a bit of greenwashing because it is made from the process of creating new tshirts, but it’s a start right? At $38.88 + tax I’ll still be doing it myself though. Oddly enough its a real bargain compared to L.L.Bean’s braided rug in “denim blue” (wow that’s expensive!).

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