Listening to: Red to Black - Fort Minor

For the last year or so I have made a conscious effort to reduce my usage of plastic bags. I found this over at PingMag:

“Thanks, I don’t need a bag!” How many times a day do I have to repeat this sentence? When buying drinks at a convenience store, apples at a supermarket or a pack of gum… in all sorts of occasions we are given plastic bags which we only use for very short moments. The national disposal (in Japan) of these shopping bags alone reaches up to 60 tons every year. As a solution to this escalating garbage problem “Furoshiki” – a square piece of wrapping cloth traditionally used in Japan for carrying things – have been re-thought and re-designed. 30 artists and celebrities have challenged this traditional format of a square cloth to be applied for modern use in the current “FUROSHIKI” exhibition at Creation Gallery G8 in Ginza, Tokyo. Under the theme of “beauty of wrapping” and “beauty of carrying” the designers wrapped what they considered most precious to themselves. Here are my most favorite furoshiki for PingMag.

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