I received an article from a crochet newsletter a few months ago that mentioned using old milk bags to crochet sleeping mats for people in impoverished countries and I was really interested in the idea. I immediately started googling info and with the help of Rachel whose email I found on http://plasticisrubbish.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/knitting-with-plastic-bags/ I was able to find quite a bit of information about getting a recycled bags for beds project going. I even found out that this project originally started in my hometown in Canada, definitely something to be proud of!
I thought that this type of project had real potential here in Peru, and while we don't have milk bags we have pretty thick bags from Saga and Ripley, the two big department stores here. I've found that both stores give out bags like there's no tomorrow so it shouldn't be hard to find people with large stashes of bags to contribute to the project.
Now it's time to start collecting bags to start making bag "yarn", make a pattern and see exactly how many bags it's gonna take to make the first mat. My guess is probably about 100 bags per mat, so that's my immediate goal... 100 bags to start. Hopefully by next weekend I'll have the bags I need to get started.
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