Creative Ideas on Reuse Plastic Grocery Bags !

Plastic Bag Chandelier

These designs featured in the NY Times by Stuart Haygarth. A puffy chandelier in the home of Tyler Velten was made by draping used plastic grocery bags over 11-watt lightbulbs. (A wire-mesh basket around each bulb keeps the chandelier from melting or bursting into flames.)

Plastic Bag Chair

This is from ryan frank free range furniture collection. An armchair made entirely from reused plastic grocery bags. The chair is upholstered using a South African craft technique – Made entirely from plastic grocery bags on a steel frame.

Plastic Bag Shoes

Yes, Dacca offers fine fashion, all weather footwear that started life as bags. Waterproof boots constructed based on the reuse of plastic grocery bags. Through the process of fusing the bags of heat is generated a thicker sheet and resilient retaining the properties of polypropylene, which are among others, waterproof, flexible, lightweight, non-toxic, which keeps you in contact with skin. This new sheet, you can use various graphics that are provided by the same advertising bags. Inside the boots are lined with quilted pique fabric, preventing perspiration of the foot and make them more comfortable. In As for colors, these can vary considerably due to the diversity of bags on the market.

Plastic Bag Cushions

Cushions get tossed around, thrown on the floor, and subjected to all kinds of abuse. Why make them form fine cloth, when they can be contracted from old plastic grocery bags. 

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Schools plastic bag videos

The children of Godwin Primary School, Forest Gate, Newham, performed their own Plastic Bag song at Marks & Spencer's Marble Arch store on 6th May 2008.


The children at Lyme Regis's St Michael's Primary School made an anti-plastic bag video.

Reason for optimism?

Today's East Anglian Daily Times reports,

Plastic bags could soon become a thing of the past in Suffolk as councils and businesses work together to eliminate their use.

But is there cause for celebration yet?

The same report goes on...

Aldeburgh - No official campaign to reduce plastic bag usage.

Bury St Edmunds - “We are trying to encourage people to use plastic bags less but we recognise sometimes you just need one.”

Eye - The town council has not yet formally discussed the issue.

Felixstowe - “We are currently looking into schemes before the next town council meeting.”

Hadleigh - No measures currently in place by the town council.

Leiston - Self-regulation is working well.

Southwold - No policy on plastic bags is currently in place.

Sudbury - “... it is really down to the individual to economise and reuse bags.”

Maybe they could try harder?

For more on plastic bags, see the Abolish Plastic Bags website.