Product packaging is designed to be eye-catching, communicative, and enticing—and then it's thrown away. Likewise, the lifecycle of a plastic shopping bag can often be measured in the few minutes it takes to travel from shop to home. Double your positive environmental impact in one step by choosing and reusing items that already incorporate reused materials.

An eco-friendly designer in Virginia decided these Asian rice and feed bags were too interesting for the trash and found a way to reconfigure them into waterproof and durable bags and baskets. They are stitched by a collective of seamstresses in Cambodia as part of a Fair Trade Federation project to create U.S. markets for unique items and provide work where jobs are scarce. Expect color variation, no two baskets are alike.
10"W x 13"H