Turn your jeans into eco-friendly sandals

Instead of throwing your old pair of jeans into the bin you can now turn them into eco-friendly sandals.

Shoemaker Mike Stables came up with idea when the last Clarks factory closed down in Britain late last year.

He snapped up the factory's canvas shoe-making equipment, hired some of its workers and set up recycleyourjeans.com.



After signing up at the site and paying £45, you are sent a prepaid envelope to pack your (preferably washed) jeans and dispatch them to the Softwalker factory.

A week or so later a pair of Kalahari brand sandals 'guaranteed made from your own jeans' arrives in the post.

The material from your old faithfuls goes into making the base of the shoe and the wraparound section while the soles are polyurethane.