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Cigarette Butts into Clothing
Uh. . .
Yes. Chilean designer Alexandra Guerrero has topped my gross chart (and my hero chart too, I think) with her upcycled cigarette butt fashion. Started as a thesis project, Guerrero's goal was to transform the massive amounts of cigarette butts littering the beaches Chile into clean, useable material.
Hear her story and see the process at TreeHugger.
Discussions
9 years ago
on antiques roadshow i saw a shirt made from the silk at the but of cigars. Surprisingly it was only worth about $10,000
9 years ago
weird
9 years ago
Don't think this is what they mean by a "Smoking Jacket"
9 years ago
I wonder how this soap is actually made
10 years ago
"Even soap can be made from purifies cigarette butts!"
o_0
Reply 10 years ago
Yeah, i'd like more detail on that part, too.
Reply 10 years ago
Especially given that soap is made from an alkali and fat... which comes from the cigarette butts?
Reply 9 years ago
perhaps she included the fiber into the soap to act as a kind of scrubby brush exfoliator type of thing
9 years ago
third hand smoke anyone?
9 years ago
Not to far fetched. We turn people poop into humanure. Then again I wouldn't rush out to buy a poo tie.
10 years ago
*Cough* ... *COUGH*
10 years ago
does that shirt smell horrible, ill bet it does
10 years ago
*walks to bathroom (vomits) *