Laminated fabrics and protective covers with post-industrial and/or post-consumer content and methods of making laminated fabrics and protective covers with post-industrial and/or post consumer content

A method of making a laminated fabric, including the steps of:

• obtaining an existing laminated fabric product, the existing laminated fabric product having a first component having a first melting point and a second component having a second melting point different from the melting point of the first component;
• dividing the existing laminated fabric product into two or more pieces;
• shredding at least some of the two or more pieces of the existing laminated fabric product to produce a shredded product;
• melt separating the first component from the second component in at least some of the shredded product to produce a first product stream having a majority of the first component and at least some of the second component and a second product stream having a majority of the second component;
• pelletizing the first product stream to produce pellets having a majority of the first component and at least some of the second component;
• providing at least one virgin polymer resin;
• forming the pellets and the at least one virgin polymer resin into a film;
• heating the film;
• providing a nonwoven material;
• applying adhesive to the nonwoven material;
• and
• laminating the film to the nonwoven material.