A number of jewelry artisans have risen to the recycling challenge. Their creative talents reuse the humble plastic bag in some of the most innovative jewelry items I have seen.
1.Arnym's Shop on Etsy makes really funky grocery bag earrings and brooches . Not shown is her grocery bag necklace. This Virginia based artisan points out that it takes 1000 years to break down a plastic bag in a landfill.
2. British designer, Anna Roebuck wants so much to educate people on the 3 R's - recycle, reuse and reduce waste - so much so her entire income comes from her business Bags2riches. Her earring collection (above left) takes advantage of the different patterns and colours found in plastic shopping bags.
3.Garbage of Eden on Etsy lives up to her store's name for she makes the most colorful and fun bangles I have ever seen. They are made from twisting plastic bags around plastic bangles. This New York based artisan even lists the source of the different colors - for example, the blue ones are made from NY Times newspaper bags, the red ones come from Chinatown!
FREE TUTORIALS
Want to have a go? Then check out Gooseflesh's tutorial on how to make plastic bag yarn to get started. For a complete necklace, check out Instructable's Grocery Bag Jewelry tutorial.
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7 comments:
One of the girls I used to work with brought in a small purse her daughter made out of plastic grocery bags. I am forever amazed at the ingenuity of people!
How cool is that! I like those bangles and have to check out the tutorials. Recently I had a discussion about jewelry made from recycled items. We were talking about sea glass and that making sea glass jewelry is a kind of recycling, too.
Nice! I usually forget to bring my totes to go grocery shopping but i am working on it! Going to do my part in helping :)
Our local grocery store give you 5 cents back for each reusable bag you bring in to pack your groceries. But like Joyce, we often forget to bring them.
I like the examples you've shown.
My friend Sara was just telling me about the making your own yarn from plastic bags. Weird. :)
I've seen jewelry like this before -using plastic bags. What an interesting concept. Our local grocery store supplied it's top customers with mesh type reusable bags. For exclusively the purpose of reducing the use of plastic. I love them and it works for us...as long as we remember to bring them in from the car. : -) Thanks for sharing this Pearl.
Thank you so much for including my work.
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