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Old tents and tarps

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MnzGear

07/03/2024 08:28PM

I'm curious what everyone does with their old tarps and tents? With owning a sewing business, I have been thinking about offering a recycling program. I would take your old tarps and tents and make them into stuff sacks and other small accessories bags. Is this worth pursuing?

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fadersup

07/03/2024 10:19PM

Sounds like a cool idea. It’s usually the seams that fail, might as well put the rest to good use. Give it a whirl.

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egknuti

07/03/2024 10:28PM

Good idea. I’ve got one old ccs tarp and 3 or 4 old tents that I still have and wondering what I should do with them. I’d love to put them to good use.

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MnzGear

07/04/2024 07:27AM

egknuti: "Good idea. I’ve got one old ccs tarp and 3 or 4 old tents that I still have and wondering what I should do with them. I’d love to put them to good use. "

Can you email me at mnzgear@gmail.com? We can discuss and figure out shipping.

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egknuti

07/05/2024 07:58AM

MnzGear: "
egknuti: "Good idea. I’ve got one old ccs tarp and 3 or 4 old tents that I still have and wondering what I should do with them. I’d love to put them to good use. "

Can you email me at mnzgear@gmail.com? We can discuss and figure out shipping."

I’ll send you an email next week.

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LaVirginienne

07/10/2024 02:26PM

Cool idea. Could you also make tent footprints from that stuff? For inside or outside the tents?

I shredded a great tarp a few years back. Wish I knew you then!

Good luck

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Snowbound

07/14/2024 08:57AM

I do some sewing on the side and have had the same idea - turn people’s beloved old gear and apparel into zip sacks, toiletry bags and wallets. That’s what I do with my own stuff. I think it is a great. Good luck to you if you can get something like that off the ground and profitable.

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deerfoot

07/14/2024 11:56AM

The missus has made me a variety of stuff sacks and even a small tarp maybe 6x8’ which I use to cover gear, firewood, etc. Mostly my old tents, tarps have been discarded. Having somewhere to recycle them would be great.

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