creative plastic bag recycling

Von am 18. Dez. 2008


For some time, I’ve been working on creative ways to recycle garbage and old, out-of-fashion or broken stuff, to make it once again be craved for and have another round in the lifecycle of consumer products..
One way of doing this is sowing new clothes from old clothes and fabric. Now I found another, combining old fabrics with used plastic bags.

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..And you can do this yourself!
You need an iron, baking paper, some fabric (preferably with synthetic fibres) and plastic bags.
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Rip or cut up the bags and spread it on the fabric. Then cover it with the baking paper and iron on maximum heat. Press hard!
plastic bag

more plastic
As long as you don’t use to many layers of plastic, you’ll get a nice, soft, and probably waterproof “new” fabric that can be used for…

plastic wallet

..for example wallets like I made, or bags, pencil cases, ..or a raincoat??
(the whole story with more pictures is on my webpage.)