Zombie film Zombieland will be featuring a hat made from recycled tarps. Although the star of the film isn’t the tarp hat but rather Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg (Adventureland), Harrelson, according to an article published on blog Treehugger, wanted the directors of the film to go as green as possible. This included reducing the amount of electricity used, as well as having him wear one of these recycled tarp hats. The hat, called a Real Deal Brazil Hat, is made from recycled truck tarps given to the company in Brazil to turn into these rugged, brimmed hats.
By taking a look on the website for Real Deal Brazil, they claim that their hats are made from recycled truck tarps that are given to them once truck companied dispose of their tarps. To reduce their carbon footprint somewhat, they ship their product to the United States by boat – apparently, this takes only two days. But the feature of this hat is its composition of truck tarps, which, from looking at various pictures on the website, appear to be canvas tarps, as opposed to the traditional polyethylene tarps. Truck tarps, however, can include both poly and canvas tarps, as well as mesh tarps, depending on the materials transported.
For these hats, the canvas makes more sense in terms of style, as opposed to the use on polyethylene, as seen on the recycled products by Swiss fashion company Freitag which, a few weeks ago, was looking for various colored tarps. The website has features to customize one of these recycled tarp hats by adding a worn, frayed look to the tarp material (with an old canvas tarp, this isn’t hard to do) or patches also made from the same recycled material.
