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Fair Trade Recycled Plastic Bag Wallets: Your Purchase Improves the Employment, Wages and Living Conditions of Women in India
By CONSERVE for Koru Street
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This Fair Trade wallet made from recycled plastic bags will give you lots of reasons to smile every day you use it. It's beautiful and sturdy so it'll last a long time. All by itself, each individual wallet rids a landfill of 50 plastic bags and provides a living wage and opportunities such as education to an Indian woman and her family. Use it with pride that you are making an economically and environmentally just consumer choice!
It's very practical besides. You have immediate access to five credit cards or ID's and lots of storage for cash, coins, keys, and checkbook or daytimer.
Size: 8" x 4" x 0.5”
REMEMBER to specify the wallet color of your choice, in the drop down list to the left.
The wallets come in the following colors: Milk Carton, Gray, Fuschia with Black Spots, Sand, and Black with White Spots.
CONSERVE is a non-governmental organization located in India that has created a unique and innovative business that not only is able to employ traditionally marginalized people at a fair living wage, but is also removing millions of plastic bags from New Delhi's landfills every year. CONSERVE uses its profits to build schools, provide meal programs for local workers and families in need, and pays three to four times the local wage to its employees to provide better living wages and opportunities.
CONSERVE employs hundreds of women in Delhi to collect up to 6,000 discarded plastic shopping bags each day and deliver them back to the production facility. The bags are sanitized, sorted by color, and then arranged in beautiful patterns on a blank canvas.
The canvas is fed into a heating unit where the plastic is fused together to form a single, colorful sheet of Handmade Recycled Plastic (HRP). Each wallet is created from a single sheet of HRP, so no two wallets are exactly alike. More than 50 plastic shopping bags are recycled to produce each CONSERVE fair trade wallet.
CONSERVE supports over 300 families via this fair trade model, which has become so popular that women have migrated from other cities to work for CONSERVE.
NOTE: No Two Wallets Are Exactly Alike -- since the wallets are produced from individual sheets of Handmade Recycled Plastic, color patterns may vary slightly from the photos.
CONSERVE also makes the stunning utensil holders for the bamboo utensils we're selling here.
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