HomeI listen to a podcast, CraftyPod, where I heard about One Pretty Thing, a huge collection of diy crafts the author finds. It feels like a gigantic bookmark that I don’t have to use my favorite search engine to find. I’ve only been reading it for a few days, but found this craft intriguing. It’s a tutorial for turning the plastic grocery bags into stronger, reusable bags by melting several together using parchment paper and an iron. These bags were even customized with words to indicate which bag contained veggies, milk, ice cream, bread, and more. The site, So You Think You’re Crafty, is a 10 week challenge in which 10 preselected crafters compete to design a craft on a given topic, see this blog for more details.
While I find these bags absolutely adorable, what crafter wouldn’t?, I am a bit concerned on several fronts. The first-melting plastic bags together can’t be good for the lungs. Is it better for the environment to put them in the landfill or melt them together and try to reuse them for a period of time? I’m aware that in some areas the plastic bags can be returned to the stores to be recycled or recycled at the local country recycle program so would this project be helpful or harmful? The second-I have worked hard to accumulate resuable bags, some of which will wear out eventually, but as of today have a long life in front of them. To have enough plastic bags to do this craft would require that I use more bags from the store, which would in effect tell the store that I support their use of the plastic bags, which I don’t.
So, does anyone have a gas mask and any extra plastic bags to donate?