Got your attention with that one, didn’t we? Well, we’re going to cover several things here. You actually can recycle fish. Here’s what we mean: First, there is the most straight forward form of recycling fish. You have probably heard of the concept of catch and release. There is a website called RecycleFish that encourages catch and release, and … you have to admit … the name is fun. Secondly, if you decide to keep and clean your fish, the guts or remains can be used for gardening. Fish remains when properly composted make a second to none garden fertilizer. Here are some great links for how to properly compost fish remains:

• http://www.gardenguides.com/87815-compost-fish-guts.html

• http://www.ehow.com/how_4603012_compost-fish-remains.html

• http://compost.css.cornell.edu/fishwaste.html

• http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/soil/msg1211121914104.html

Last, we share with you a number of ways materials have been recycled or repurposed into some crafty fish or fish related items:

• Beer Can Fish by Ritch Branstrom (great daddy, uncle or grandpa gifts)
• Bottle Cap Fish by John T. Unger
• Recycled Fish Tin Desk Organizer
• Fabric Fish by SewnNatural

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Wooly Bison bags are made from wool suiting as well as other wool clothing.  The bags are lined with cotton and straps and closures are aslo made form found or reclaimed items. 

These bags are all hand made in Seattle, WA and look really cool. 

Wooly Bison bags range in price from $14 to $145 and are available for sale online at their Etsy store.

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Greenbelts is making cuffs, rings, guitar straps and even dog collars out of old belts and other scrap items. 

Give an old belt a future. That’s right—Greenbelts are handmade from recycled leather belts. Many of the decorative bits are also recycled. Things like buttons, bottle caps, scrap leather and various doohickeys. Each one is hand crafted by Northwest artist and child wrangler, Shannon Ritscher. Greenbelts are creative, funky, one of a kind. Not your mega-store fare.

Items can be purchased from Greenbelts online through their store at Etsy.

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Cotton Monsters are made from 100% recycled clothing and linens to create one of a kind monsters. There are no patterns used so every monster is a little different. 

Some are quite creepy but the craftmanship is amazing. 

Jennifer Strunge is making these great monsters in her house in Maryland and they can be purchased from her shop at Etsy.

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ForrestConcepts is making the best notbooks by reusing old books.  You can buy them for their store at Etsy.com for prices ranging from $15 to $20.  Every notebook is different, which makes them even better.  As already stated they are available to purchase on line but if you’re the creative type you could probably make your own notebooks from some old books you have sitting around the house.  It looks like you would have to cut the binding off of the book and then add the spiral notebook binding.

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Rebirth is a green company that rebuilds and reconstructs old bike frames into new street fixed gear frames with track bike geometry. They design their bikes with hand crafted BMX style reinforcements and rear horizontal drop outs. All of their frames are one of a kind with custom paint or powder coat. Rebirth also does frame and fork repair, rear drop out conversion from road to track, as well as custom design. 

Rebrth is located at 15601 Producer Lane unit O Huntington Beach Ca 92649. They also provide parts, (new and used) wheel sets, and bicycle maintenance service.

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Re-Knicks are made from carefully selected new and used pants – in both men’s and women’s sizes, each is a one-of-a-kind. They are separated into 3 different categories.

• Standard ReKnicks are lightly used mostly cottons twills – $50/pair, includes USPS Priority shipping
• DeLuxe ReKnicks are new or totally like new cotton twill and wool blends. $55/pair, includes USPS Priority shipping.
• Premium ReKnicks are wool, silk, linen, or other exceptional pants. $60/pair, USPS Priority shipping.
  Please add $5.00 for international shipping.

Their most excellent seamstress, Mary Bergman, shortens them, sews darts into the knee to articulate it, and using the extra leg material she constructs the fully-lined three button band, and makes a cell phone pocket for the right leg. An extra swatch of fabric goes into the rear pocket in case you crash and need a patch. Mary also embroiders our Hell Yes logo on the left hem.

Each is unique, so Re-Knicks says to order yours by our stock number.

Here is a list of their current inventory.

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Tired Ol’ Belts, LLC is the brainchild of the hand crafter himself, Matthew Meyer. Tired of his pants falling down while he biked around the city, and even more tired of the boring old belts in his drawer he decided to take matters into his own hands, literally. He’d seen a few belts on the Internet that were similar, but not anything he was looking for. So, after much toiling around in the garage Tired Ol’ Belts was born. All belts are unique and hand crafted. They are made from 100% recycled (and sometimes irregular)bicycle parts, and are 100% vegan. You can also send Tired Ol’ Belts  a favorite tire and they can make it into your new favorite belt.

The only question you have left to ask yourself is, “What’s holding up your pants?”

Tired Ol’ Belts wll also trade you a belt for your metal, or even pay you.

Here is a list of parts they are looking for:

• cranksets that have removable allen-wrench style chainring bolts
• allen-wrench style chainring bolts by themselves
• discarded chain (can be greasy but not rusty)
• discarded cassettes and/or 11t-15t individual cogs and discarded spokes.

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ABC Carpet has introduced their Color Reform collection.  These rugs are made by removing all of the color from old, worn down rugs. They then re-dye the rugs to create brilliant monochromatic master pieces.

ABC Carpet sells these rugs for between $899 and $16,499.  They can be purchased from their website.

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Indosole is making really cool flip flops out of salvaged motorcycle tires. These are great shoes and they’re even cooler because you can still see the pattern of the tire treads on the bottom of the shoes.

IndoSole says that their sandals are made by people, not machines. They use materials which have been salvaged and re-born. Their goal is to save old motorbike tires and other trash from Indonesian landfills.

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