Recycling plastic bags into durable plastic sheets

by Jen

Spotlight Post: Long Overdue Fusing Plastic Bag Tutorial

Now, you can use this stuff to make a million things. We’ve made re-usable grocery totes, wallets, and floor cushions; I think its an inexpensive way to make waterproof linings for beach bags and makeup clutches.

This is so brilliant! The tutorial is very easy to follow, and your end result is a durable, fairly thick sheet of plastic that you can use for all sorts of things or make into tote bags or small wallets – or just about anything, really.

Instead of buying enough canvas totes to do grocery shopping without plastic bags, you could make enough totes this way to cover it. Keep one at work so when you run errands on lunch you won’t have to use their bags. Keep one in the car, one at home.

Want more tips on how to conserve and reuse plastic bags?

Reuse Plastic Grocery Bags – Thrifty Fun has an inspiring list of things you can do with old plastic bags, ways to make sure you always have them handy when you grocery shop, and some tips from readers about where to recycle them when you just can’t reuse them anymore.
Fake Plastic Fish offers a sensible look into what to do with plastic bags instead of recycling. Since we’re stuck with them and they can’t be recycled into anything that’s going to break down any faster, and recycling uses a lot of energy (renewable resource), reusing plastic bags is actually the greenest way to go.

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Posted in Do It Yourself, Going Green on April 20, 2008
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