Wednesday, March 07, 2012

Love this recycling idea

From the Vancouver Sun yesterday.

"Twenty-one high school students from seven Lower Mainland schools created an impressive array of fashionable items out of discarded banners as part of a sustainability project organized by university students....
To date, the Banner Bags team has saved more than 1,400 pounds of nylon from going into local landfills, avoiding the equivalent of 35,000 pounds of CO2 emisons,  and have saved "banner" companies approximatelh $2,750 in disposal costs."

I'm always interested in the banners themselves I guess because they generally incorporate a naive art style and just love the idea of them being transformed into something else!