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Published 09:00 IST, October 18th 2019

Recycling Denim: Things to do to recycle old and rugged denim jeans

Recycling Denim jeans is easy and can help in getting more stylish products. Find out the three best things one can do to their old and rugged denim jeans.

Reported by: Yash Tripathi
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For those who love the comfort of denim, it is one of the hardest tasks to throw off the jeans they treasure so dearly. This fantastic clothing product comes in various colours and varieties. Do not worry, jeans can be recycled again even after they have worn off in some places. Here are a few things one can do to recycle their old worn-out pieces of denim and repurpose them.

Things to do to recycle old denim jeans

Denim Napkins

Jeans can be made into stylish napkins at home easily. A person requires to have old denim, bleach, hydrogen peroxide, various paper designs, a needle, and threads. Cut down those denim jeans into the size of a napkin, sew the edges of the napkin to make it look clean and classy, bring the design that would look great on the napkin and keep it on the napkin, collect bleach in a spray bottle and spray it on the design kept over the napkin. Let the bleach dry on the napkin for 30 seconds and then spray hydrogen peroxide from a spray bottle. Allow it to dry. A stylish heart-winning napkin is made out of old denim.

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Keyholders

Old tight jeans do not deserve to go into the trash. Denim has back pockets which are of great use even after the jean gets old and rugged. It is very simple and easy to make all a person needs to make a stylish keyholder is a needle, a thread, and an old lace. Cut off the back pocket from the old jeans, sew the edges of the jeans and while sewing, stitch a small piece of lace in it so that it could be hanged anywhere. The keyholder is ready, one can also use it for keeping money or hanging the phone while it is on charge near the socket.

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Pouch

Jeans can be turned into the most reliable pouches which may come into handy to keep various stuff. The leg of the jean can help in making various sizes of pouches. Cut off the leg portion according to the desired size required, stitch one of the sides. Take zipper and stitch to the open side. The pouch is ready to be used.

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Updated 17:12 IST, October 18th 2019

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