Eco Fashion: Buy Recycled Handbags Online

Recycled handbags are all the rage among eco-fashionistas.

Recycled handbags are made from waste products that have been donated or salvaged and cleaned. The process of making recycled handbags and other recycled fashion is often known as "up-cycling," because it takes items that were discarded and turns them into beautiful and functional works of art while simultaneously saving natural resources, reducing air and water pollution, cutting carbon emissions, and saving space in landfills.

Recycled handbags are almost always handmade by artisan workers, and many are fair trade certified, so they not only help save the environment, they also fight poverty by promoting fair working conditions and good wages for workers around the world.

One of the most popular styles of recycled handbags is handbags made from recycled candy wrappers.

Recycled candy wrapper handbags are typically made from rolls of new candy wrappers that have been discarded because of printing errors, excess production, or because the candy product has been discontinued.

The candy wrappers are woven together to create a sturdy yet stylish handbag that is often waterproof! They come in every size from clutches to totes.

Recycled soda pop top handbags are perfect for eco-fashionistas who like a little bling in their lives!

You can also create your own pop top handbags. Check out this pop top crochet tutorial from Escama Studio and remember, recycling pop tops is just a start! It's important to recycle the whole can, because recycling aluminum cans requires 95% less energy than making cans from virgin ore. In fact, recycling a single aluminum can saves enough energy to run a television for three hours!

Every year, an estimated 290 million tires are thrown away in the United states alone. Many of these tires are burned, releasing pollutants into the atmosphere.

One clever way to reuse some of these tires is to make handbags out of them! Reclaimed inner tubes from car and truck tires are cleaned and cut to produce cool futuristic rubber handbags in a variety of sizes and styles.

Handbags made from recycled plastic bags are not only eco-friendly, they can actually directly save the lives of animals and humans alike.

Every year, 380 billion plastic shopping bags are used in the United States alone. Less than one third are recycled, and the rest make their way into landfills, waterways, and other natural areas, where they can take up to 1000 years to decompose. Meanwhile, they create unattractive litter, contribute to flooding by blocking drains and sewers, and kill an estimated 1 billion sea turtles, shore birds, and other animals every year, mainly by being mistaken for jellyfish and other food.

Paper products make up about 40% of all waste products produced in the United States every year, and recycled newspaper handbags are a clever and stylish way to reuse some of this paper waste.

Recycled newsprint may not sound like a very durable material for a handbag, but the bags are laminated or coated with a special natural varnish that makes them both sturdy and waterproof. The interiors are typically recycled cloth or plastic.