By Michelle Kennedy Hogan / Source: Inhabitat

Carpet may not be in style anymore, but it does serve at least one purpose, warming up a floor. And now, thanks to a New Zealand company that has found a way to turn old carpet into children’s bicycles, it can also serve another purpose when it’s been torn out and thrown away.

Because it’s bulky and loaded with lots of different materials, carpeting is hard to recycle. But it also takes up lots of space inside a landfill. What to do? Jenny and Rich McIver who run Wishbone Design out of Wellington, NZ considered the problem and came up with a solution that includes technology to turn carpet into strong tubular shapes needed to make a bicycle.

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