Trashy Handbags Go Upscale!

A new non-profit company in India is making a big splash in London's most fashionable boutiques with plastic handbags made from trash!

This enterprise began as a way to make money to help the needy in India and has grown into a way for the poorest in this country to help support their families. Rag-pickers scour the dumps in New Delhi, looking for anything that can be sold for recycling purposes. These people are at the bottom of the social ladder but have been trained by the non-profit organization to pick up the most colorful plastic bags
to be turned into handbags.

The rag-pickers are given machines to wash the plastic bags and they are then pressed into a solid sheet using a heat press. The plastic is then sew into colorful handbags for export to the high-end fashion boutiques of London and other European countries.

This cottage industry has become so successful that the founders have been approached from countries as far away as Brazil and Africa for help in starting their
own program to help the poor with this ecologically sound endeavor.