We had some really great threads last year, with the following four nominated for the Thread of the Year award in this January's Environment Site Awards ceremony.
Actually I think it's a great idea. When I get married, rather than spending £1000's on a wedding dress for the missus, I'll just stitch something together out of old rags that I found in the bin.
It's great - but I guess a selfish endeavor as opposed to selflessly cleaning the environment.
However every little helps and it highlights to people that you can make money out of recycling, which will motivate a lot of people, especially in this day and age. I've blogged about making money this very week: