Newspaper Bags (Thanks, Alice!)
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do they have a US outlet?
This is the perfect opportunity to mention the company for which my gf works as director of sales, Rebagz. They make fashion bags of various types from recycled materials in the Philippines under fair labor conditions. The parent company, Half the Sky Designs LLC, was recently named 2009 California Small Business of the Year. In addition, part of the proceeds from certain of the bags go to a variety of causes, such as Greenpeace and the Breast Cancer Emergency Fund.
Doh! Forgot to post the Rebagz URL: www.rebagz.com
Wow, am I having trouble parsing all of this. Help me out:
"These newspaper carrier bags" are not (necessarily) made by people who carry (or used to carry) and deliver newspapers. They are not made to (necessarily) carry newspapers in. They are bags, for carrying things, made out of newspapers.
Some bags, like those pictured, are made from Bollywood posters.
Some other bags, not pictured, are made from Indian newspapers.
No bags are made from both Indian newspapers and Bollywood posters.
Have I got all that right?
In any case, I'm goggling at the idea of street children "giving back". From the site: These elder children, now married with children of their own, generate an income by making newspaper bags and jute items. This allows them to take care of thirteen street children that they have saved from the streets surrounding Delhi train station.
Yikes.
Won't the Bollywood posters have more value as ... Bollywood posters ... a few years from now?
You greatly underestimate the sheer volume of production for those.
this just looks like the kind of thing you find in camden market