Bombastic Plastix make trinkets from trash
Eco-friendly fashion from Bali.
Bombastic Plastix is a small company based in Bali that makes bags, wallets and other accessories from re-utilised plastic shopping bags. All the products are made by directly reforming HDPE plastic shopping bags into a fabric instead of them being put into the longer process of recycling.
It all started when the company's founder Samuel Miller was travelling through Bolivia. He saw a chain link fence that caught trash like a giant fishing net. "I looked at that fence and thought one thing 'there must be something you can do with those things,'" he says. A decade later, with the help of his partner Balinese Niluh Indrawati, he founded Bombastic Plastix.
The wallets and shopper bags are available now from their website. And below are some exciting prototypes for the future. They certainly beat using a Tesco's carrier bag like your nan.
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Bombastic Plastix make trinkets from trash (text) by Shelley Lee Jones is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 UK License.
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