Carrier bags made from Indian newspapers and Bollywood posters

These newspaper carrier bags are made in India by an NGO that provides education and shelter to street kids. The bags themselves are very sweet and good for several uses before they're ready for the recycling box, and make good use of the striking designs from the newspapers they're folded from (I like the Bollywood poster ones, too!).

Newspaper Bags (Thanks, Alice!)

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do they have a US outlet?
trommelkopf

This is the perfect opportunity to mention the company for which my gf works as director of sales, Rebagz. They make fashion bags of various types from recycled materials in the Philippines under fair labor conditions. The parent company, Half the Sky Designs LLC, was recently named 2009 California Small Business of the Year. In addition, part of the proceeds from certain of the bags go to a variety of causes, such as Greenpeace and the Breast Cancer Emergency Fund.
trommelkopf

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Little John

Wow, am I having trouble parsing all of this. Help me out:

“These newspaper carrier bags” are not (necessarily) made by people who carry (or used to carry) and deliver newspapers. They are not made to (necessarily) carry newspapers in. They are bags, for carrying things, made out of newspapers.

Some bags, like those pictured, are made from Bollywood posters.

Some other bags, not pictured, are made from Indian newspapers.

No bags are made from both Indian newspapers and Bollywood posters.

Have I got all that right?

In any case, I’m goggling at the idea of street children “giving back”. From the site: These elder children, now married with children of their own, generate an income by making newspaper bags and jute items. This allows them to take care of thirteen street children that they have saved from the streets surrounding Delhi train station.

Yikes.
Mitch

Won’t the Bollywood posters have more value as … Bollywood posters … a few years from now?
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  You greatly underestimate the sheer volume of production for those.