Kahlee, I have a green story that might interest you about how a small, non-profit organization is making a big environmental impact with recycled plastic shopping bags.
Conserve employs hundreds of underprivileged women in Delhi to collect up to 6,000 discarded plastic shopping bags each day and deliver them back to the production facility. The bags are sanitized, sorted by color, and then arranged in beautiful patterns on a blank canvas. The canvas is fed into a heating unit where the plastic is fused together forming a single sheet of Handmade Recycled Plastic (HRP).
Fashion designers from London, Paris, Milan, and Moscow have created handbag patterns (templates) for the women to cut from the HRP sheets and then sew into stylish, European-style handbags. Conserve supports over 300 impoverished families via this fair trade model and production is about 100 handbags per day.
These eco-hip bags have become ‘all the rage’ in Europe as consumers embrace the ‘fashion with a conscious’ statement each bag makes. Conserve bags are finally making their US debut as part of a holiday season charity event sponsored by Planet Charity.
There are many remarkable aspects to this story that I would be happy to share at your request, including the recent Ashoka fellowship awarded to Conserve. Please feel free to contact me by replying to this email or by phone at 515.418.6515.
Love your blogs. You keep writing and I will keep reading. Oh, if you ever find yourself in Jacksonville, FL. let me know. I know a few young ladies who would love to meet you.
Ezine Blog
robbie nz said
so yea i linked to you
you should link back haha
Billy said
not sure how I got here. I was google surfing. And then I went through some sort of warp in reality, now here I am.
BestVirginiaHomeLoan said
pics were pretty funny, more soon? You’re now on my technorati favorites!
Jaran said
well i was google surfing too and i dont know how i ended in here but hello any way but i found your blog interesting so i thought id stop in
Kyle said
How could I help but stop by a blog run by a cheerleader? I was once one myself
ps. I’m a girl, don’t be fooled by the manly name!
Sm0kah0ntas said
I’d take comment number 1 for 200 Alex
egzact said
Never give a cheerleader a keyboard
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I like it!
Glenn Westra said
Kahlee, I have a green story that might interest you about how a small, non-profit organization is making a big environmental impact with recycled plastic shopping bags.
Conserve employs hundreds of underprivileged women in Delhi to collect up to 6,000 discarded plastic shopping bags each day and deliver them back to the production facility. The bags are sanitized, sorted by color, and then arranged in beautiful patterns on a blank canvas. The canvas is fed into a heating unit where the plastic is fused together forming a single sheet of Handmade Recycled Plastic (HRP).
Fashion designers from London, Paris, Milan, and Moscow have created handbag patterns (templates) for the women to cut from the HRP sheets and then sew into stylish, European-style handbags. Conserve supports over 300 impoverished families via this fair trade model and production is about 100 handbags per day.
These eco-hip bags have become ‘all the rage’ in Europe as consumers embrace the ‘fashion with a conscious’ statement each bag makes. Conserve bags are finally making their US debut as part of a holiday season charity event sponsored by Planet Charity.
There are many remarkable aspects to this story that I would be happy to share at your request, including the recent Ashoka fellowship awarded to Conserve. Please feel free to contact me by replying to this email or by phone at 515.418.6515.
Thanks,
Glenn Westra
Glenn said
Hi Kahlee, post #8 was not meant to be a public post. Would you please delete? Thanks
Michael Hastings said
Love your blogs. You keep writing and I will keep reading. Oh, if you ever find yourself in Jacksonville, FL. let me know. I know a few young ladies who would love to meet you.
Rob said
Hey Kahlee,
Hope you are doing excellent today! Just wanted to drop you a line and say that your blogs are hilarious. Take and care and keep them coming!
Rob