{"id":15639,"date":"2013-05-21T08:52:17","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T14:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=15639"},"modified":"2013-05-21T08:52:17","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T14:52:17","slug":"reuse-the-movie-how-ordinary-americans-are-putting-trash-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/reuse-the-movie-how-ordinary-americans-are-putting-trash-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Reuse, the Movie: How Ordinary Americans are Putting Trash to Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’ve spent any amount of time here at sustainablog, you know we’re big fans of reuse: recycling’s great and all, but why add more energy and material to an item’s footprint if it can be repurposed<\/a> or upcycled<\/a>? So I was definitely drawn to the story of Alex Eaves and his company Stay Vocal<\/a>, which creates “new” t-shirts out of shirts that have, at the very least, been created for other uses… in some cases, they’re pre-owned (and, thus, pre-worn).<\/p>\n

Alex is very good at putting together events for exposing people to the joys and possibilities of reuse: a few years ago, I wrote about his “Reuse and Schmooze” tour<\/a> over at the Sundance Channel. He’s going back on tour this Summer, and, this time, he wants to make a movie about the ideas for reuse he picks up from other people. I’ll let him explain:<\/p>\n