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Meh.

I'd argue that buying plastic bags from Singapore via the Netherlands is a sign of globalization, not a battle against it.

This is a good idea that could definitely be improved upon.

I know it's been covered here before, but there are lots of people doing interesting things with fusing shopping bags with an iron to create fabric that can be used for making accessories:

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=5214947

http://etsylabs.blogspot.com/2007/05/long-overdue-fusing-plastic-bag.html

http://casasugar.com/537750

http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/03/diy_plastic_bag_wallet.html

http://www.craftzine.com/blog/archive/2007/08/plastic_bag_crafts.html

This looks junky. I wouldn't want it in my house.

I don't think so.

Many people already use plastic bags like that as small trash receptacle liners... hardly need a 'designer' to think of that!

It seems like the problem is that it looks exactly like the sum of the parts. I use plastic bags for trash inside other bins, not on display.

It makes me think Mogatu from Zoolander just added a home collection to his Derelicte line.

I am one of the "them." I reuse my bag and hang it on the front door so as not to have garbage overnight in the apartment...it discourage laziness and vermins.

I echo the majority, stupid, ugly and boring.

wait, i'm confused by the sentence, "The ironing treatment is also a way of consolidation of plastic bags for future recycling." does that mean the bags are biodegradable? or does that mean they're just being saved for future purposes?

the positive: the bags were brought back here to be reused instead of filling a landfill (at least not yet)

the negative: the bags will someday fill a landfill.

but such is the way things are. i am just so sad that cloth bags aren't being utilized as much as they could... :-(

Hideous! Is that strong enough?