The Trashy Smart Bag, a reusable bag, designed and created by a social enterprise making upcycled eco-friendly bags from discarded drinking water sachets that litter the streets of Accra, Ghana. As light as a feather, it’s always ready to be brought out instead of using yet more one-use paper or plastic bags.
Trashy Bags Africa is leading the way in sustainable development in Africa. They have collected and recycled over 30 million plastic sachets since the initiative was created in 2007. Plastic sachets have become a big problem across Africa because of the lack of recycling initiatives and waste management infrastructure. Each month, a network of remunerated people collects and brings in nearly 200,000 plastic sachets to Trashy Bags Africa, who employs over forty local people to collect, clean and stitch plastic trash into fashionable and useful bags.
