No it’s not Tom Hanks’ foot closeup taken from the “Cast Away” making-off movie. But sometimes, when you dash your car and that the tires get destroyed and that you don’t know what to do but throw them or worst burn them, think about how you can recycle the useless rubber.
This picture comes from a nicknamed ‘CThoyes’ guy who has pulled his creation and DIY howto on the Instructables.com collaboration portal. As he acknowledge it, he first spotted the idea on Thomas J. Elpel’s website. It “has good instructions but not many photos. So, I thought I would try it and take photos,” said cthoyes. “They actually didn’t take very long, the longest part was cutting the tire into sections. I used a hacksaw and a utility knife,” he added on his personal website.
Historically, “rubber tire sandals were used extensively by the Viet Minh and Viet Cong during the war in Vietnam from the late 1940’s until the fall of Saigon“, as Old Ho’s Rubber Sandal Co. claimed on its website. The Cambodia-based company is selling them for $10. Part of the price will help the international NGO Heritage Watch preserve cultural heritage in SouthEast Asia.
In case you want to please every body, go also buy one of those quite identical sandals to EcoSandals, a Kenyan non-profit company.
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