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Ultimate Garbage Bag

Ultimate Garbage Bag

Mar 26, 2004-- An estimated 450,000 scavangers pick over trash heaps in Jakarta, Indonesia, collecting anything they think they can resell. When artist Ann Wizer moved there in 2000, she did the unthinkable: "I made shoulder bags from garbage, employing the scavengers I had watched for months." The experiment worked! Wizer pays the scavengers for trash and then employs some of them to wash, sort, and sew the salvaged items into patterns she designs. (2293 reads)


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Take ActionWizer's bags aren't yet available but she can be reached at xsproject@yahoo.com. In the meantime, check out the photo of the ultimate garbage bag -- a plastic tote made from trash! [more]



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