Upcycled for Earth Day
In honor of Earth Day, I thought I would track down a few pieces that’s my favorite new way to upcycle or recycle… fused shopping bags. No matter how many times you bring your own bags to the store, somehow you end up with a stash of plastic bags in your house. Of course you can bring them back to the store to be “recycled” but from everything I’ve seen and learned about recycling plastic bags is that it expends more energy to recycle them than to create more, so they are very unlikely to ever actually be recycled. So, what to do? These crafty little etsy-ers have turned them into fashionable items to reuse again and again.
I love this “The Little Blue Green Purse” in which groundsel used old New York Times newspaper sleeves along with regular plastic bags to make an awesomely colorful pattern you don’t normally see in fused plastic bag art.
ReclaimedWreckage makes a variety of really cool upcycled items, but since we are focusing on fused plastic bags today, I wanna show you their super cool eco wine tote with a little window that allows you to see what kind of wine you’re packin’.
After looking through some more of Reclaimed Wreckage’s products, I had to share a few more… first this fused grocery bag hobo purse with flower accents:
And this fused plastic faux leather journal with a bit of old leather belt as the clasp:
This last little gem is from claudiabags and is made from old plastic bags for just a little clutch to take out on the town.
Tags: earth day, eco, fused plastic bags
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Thanks so much for including my work!