upcycling Blog about MILKBAGSunlimited
December 9, 2023
MilkBags Unlimited is non-profit organization dedicated to reusing milk bags by making them into new essential products for humanitarian purposes. Their Facebook group describes the following of their work:
This group brings together people who weave milk bag strips into sleeping, door, or chair mats, others who crochet them to make clutches, handbags, shopping/ beach bags, slippers and more.
The only material used is the outer bag of milk bags. Milk comes in bags in some Canadian Provinces ( Ontario, Quebec , the Maritimes ) as well as in India, China, Israel, Russia, Ukraine, Iran, Columbia, Uruguay, Argentina, Hungary, South Africa, and even in some parts of the U.S.
Milkbagsunlimited donates mats to natural disaster stricken countries, the homeless in Canada and sends them regularly to Burkina Faso, Brazil, Dominica, El Salvador , Ghana, Grenada , Guatemala , Haiti, Honduras , Jamaica, Kenya, Liberia , Malawi , Nicaragua , Peru, Philippines, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Zambia…
This group enables you to
– Hook up with other milk bags weavers, crocheters and collectors.
– Increase the awareness of recycling instead of dumping.
– Ask questions.
– Locate instructions.
– Sharing tricks and tips
– Find out where to bring milk bags and where to get some.
– Know where to deliver finished mats.
– Be part of a like minded community.
– Showcase your work with pictures.
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