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Ragbag®

:: handmade recycled products ::

Ragbags are fashionable products made from recycled plastic bags by deprived people in the slums of Delhi.
Buy @ www.ragbag.eu

The collection

The Ragbag collection started in the summer of 2005. The following products are now sold in shops in Netherlands, Germany and the US and through the webshop, for world wide delivery:

As of this summer, shops in the UK and rest of Europe will follow.
Ragbag products are designed by young European designers. Next year the collection will be extended with the new designs of the rucksack and the shopper.

The story

Ragbags are fashionable products made from recycled plastic bags by deprived people in the slums of Delhi. The production is done by Conserve, a Delhi based NGO. They work with rag pickers, who collect the plastic waste, collection centers where they wash and clean the bags. Then the bags are sorted on colours and pressed to thicker sheets. Finally they go to small fabricators who make them into new products. The project is already creating jobs for more than 60 ragpickers, people at collection centers and fabricators in New Delhi, providing them and their families ‘means of livelihood’ and gain access to more opportunities. If this project is successfully implemented this can grow to 120-200 people in 2007.

More info: www.ragbag.eu