Clothing That's Recycled and High Fashion

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Length: 3 minutes

Step into haute couture with recycling! Recently, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection challenged design students to create fashions from recycled materials. Watch models strut down the runway dressed in playing cards, pull-tabs, plastic bottles and more!

Produced (1999) by the Environmental Fund for Pennsylvania for the GreenWorks for Pennsylvania television program entitled, The Recycling Loop: Buying Recycled. Watch the entire episode here!

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