Materials used for this product:
plastic bags
Cardboard
Leather belts
Cloth
One biscuit can
Did you know?
The plastic bag is an accepted part of Australia’s shopping culture, but it shouldn’t be. Each year we use 3.92 billion new plastic shopping bags, many of which remain in the environment.
_ The average Australian household uses 502 plastic shopping bags every year.
_ Australians dump 7,150 recyclable plastic bags into landfill every minute or 429,000 every hour.
_ It takes 21,540 tonnes of plastic to produce 3.92 billion plastics bags.
_ If 3.92 billion plastic bags were tied together, they would circle the globe 24 times.
_ Plastic shopping bags can be returned to your supermarket for recycling. Currently only approximately 3% of bags are being recycled.
Impact of plastic bags on the environment:
Natural resources
Persistence in the environment
Litter
Clean up costs
Marine life
Landfills
Greenhouse gases
The main purpose of this product is to give a coat to an original biscuit can and make it much more like a vase and can help to slove the problems related to plastic bags.
The weaving part of this vase is totally handmade. It can really add traditional elements to this product and makes this product friendly. The biscuit can inside it is for containing water and when you need to change water, you can take the can off from its ‘cloth’.
I think its very clever to make plastic bags into strings and wave patterns from it. The model is very well made and it looks nice. : ) However, I'm not sure if the biscuit can can act as a vase, wouldnt it rust?
ReplyDeleteThe final product looks very nice in design and colour. I like the use of plastic bag as it's never recycled and I love how you had made it into strings. I'm just concerned with the other materials, such as cardboard and cloth. Although there is can there, won't it still get wet when you try take the can out ?
ReplyDeleteFrom an aesthetic point of view this product is very nice the mix of materials within the design is also nice. although using cardboard for a vase may have not been the best of material choices. I do remember looking at this on Tuesday and noticing that within all the crafty outside was a tin can slotted on the inside. This really makes the tin can the vase and the plastic bags just for look maybe you could have made it as though the bag was more apart of the vase instead of just for look.
ReplyDeleteYour project did turn out great well done
the material you used is real waste.the color of the model is pretty nice.but i feel a little bit confused why do you use the cardboard which could be wet in some way.
ReplyDeleteclever use of plastic bag assorting them into a nice colourfull pattern. The cardboard shouldnt have been used. but overall i do actualy like this project well done.!
ReplyDeleteRecycling shopping bags is a awesome idea!! Looks great and i'd say it'll work well
ReplyDeleteAs mentioned above i think you shouldn't have used cardboard as it can be wet easily.