Comments on: Recycle Your Grocery Plastic Bag

By: Craft Passion

Craft Passion — Mon, 14 May 2012 04:27:29 +0000

You are right, Tammie. It is another good way to recycle the grocery plastic bag. They called it PLARN, derived form the word PLastic yARN. I wanted to make PLARN but I can’t seems to collect enough grocery plastic bags since our country is going into “plastic bag free” campaign. Grocery and departmental stores no longer giving out free plastic bag for our purchase. Even we donate some money to get the plastic bags, they are all bio-degradable type that will break itself into pieces after a while.

By: Tammie

Tammie — Sun, 13 May 2012 14:38:38 +0000

I saw a tutorial for recycling plastic bags that was amazing! They laid the bag flat, cut off the top and bottom then cut the bag into strips. (kind of like your loops that you used to make pot holders out of when you were a kid . Next they attached the loops… like you would attach two rubber bands together to make a single string) then when they had all the loops attached into a string it was rolled into a ball.
Next step, they crocheted the plastic yarn into mats for the homeless.
It turned out great! The lady doing the tutorial said the most important thing was to use bags of similar weight for each mat.
Here is the connect to the You Tube tutorial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiUC0iDQtkA

It really is an amazing use for recycling bags.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:40:38 +0000

You are so talented and creative!
I once saw a raincoat made from fused sheets of shopping bags. VERY unique and functional. Looking forward to your tote bag results.

By: Pounds4Pennies

Pounds4Pennies — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:09:05 +0000

I saw this on Etsy a while back. I have been planning on making these into a bag. Thanks for reminding me of this idea.

By: Craft Passion

Craft Passion — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 04:47:03 +0000

exactly.

By: Maggie

Maggie — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 01:57:34 +0000

When you said “Sandwich 2 pieces of plain white paper in between the plastic pile”, did you mean Sandwich the plastic pile between 2 pieces of plain white paper?

By: Beverley Livezey

Beverley Livezey — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:56:50 +0000

Nice website you have here. It’s very well made haha.

By: AruljothiKarikalan

AruljothiKarikalan — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 12:58:19 +0000

Hi…. all you tutorials were nice… easy to understand and beautiful… i’ll try making these things… thank you…

By: truthaboutabs

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By: sigilii

sigilii — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:20:13 +0000

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