What To Do With All Those Extra Plastic Bags
So once everyone in the world bans plastic bags, we will still have trillions of the the thing laying around? We had better start finding things to do with them. Below are a couple of ideas.
I am so going to be making this, I will let you know how it turned out.
You can find MUCH more after the fold.
Make your plastic bags into one reusable plastic tote to carry your food. Nice. In fact there is an entire website dedicated to crocheting plastic bags into amazingly beautiful bags. Check it out here.
You can make your own fabric out of plastic bags. From there you can make anything you would have used fabric for out of it. You can find an extensive and well written fusing tutorial here and here. Or check out this video here. (mov)
Including a plastic wallet.
I guess this could save your life, and it looks so stylish.
Speaking of wearing them, you can make some pretty nifty shoes. You can learn how to make your own pair of these here and here. You can even knit with plastic bags.
How about a plastic bag wedding dress.
Or this spiffy gown…
Or this fetching dress, made from fabric scraps plastic bags and magazine clippings.
Another nice looking plastic bag dress.
You could make a rug.
You could make art from them.
You could make beautiful art from them, all of these guys are made from plastic bags and dye.
More great plastic bag art.
- Posted in : Environment, Pictures, Videos
- Author :The Naib
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Wow, great roundup!!!
Thank you for this valuable post. I have free patterns and tutorials on crocheting & knitting with such things as plastic bags, vcr video tape, cassette tape etc. Check out my site http://www.myrecycledbags.com for more crafting ideas.
Bre: Coming from you that is a wonderful compliment, thank you so much :)
Hi Cindy, you might notice that I already have a link to your site in the main post. But your site is very cool so I don’t mind a second plug :) Thanks for visiting.
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Wow this is great my daughter is doing a project at school. We chose plastic and this is the second cool thing I have come across. I will let you know how it goes. Thanks for the help.