Bright and fun shopping bags featuring an inspired combination of juice packs and rice sacks! Eye-catching and unusual and practical too, they will stand up to lots of use.
Benefits:
- A stylish bag that is sure to get you noticed
- Strong and durable so you can use it for years
- Made to strict fair trade standards
- Strong handles securely attached to the side
- Internal pocket so you can keep your phone, purse etc close to hand
- The waterproof material means that they are great for trips to the swimming pool or beach
Rice is an absolute staple food in the Philippines (the average Filipino eats nearly 2.5 kg of rice a week) and the colourful sacks that it is transported and purchased in are discarded in large quantities across the country. The tough, plasticised threads are strong and waterproof with bright and often rather quirky designs, but are not biodegradable so reusing them in this way reduces landfill.
IMPORTANT - PLEASE READ: The images are 'examples' of what each bag looks like. When ordering a Harlequin Bag please be aware that while the juice pack sections will be the same as (or very similar to) those in the picture, the rice sack section of the bag may be different. If you would like to receive a specific rice sack design please let us know, and we will do our best to help.
Approx. 16in/41cm wide (bottom), 14in/36cm wide (top), 12in/31cm high, 4in/10cm deep (at the bottom).
About Doy Bags
Doy Bags are a range of bags, purses and accessories made from recycled juice packs - non-biodegradable foil and plastic packaging that would otherwise go into landfill sites and incinerators.
Doy Bags are made by our women's cooperative in the Philippines. The large number of bags and household items produced every year prevents vast quantities of juice packs from being burnt, buried or simply littering the streets and waterways.
Doy Bags are proud to provide employment to over 200 women. Almost all the women are their family's main breadwinners, most of the husbands being unable to find work due to the poor economy of the area. The women have an average of 4-6 children, thus working for the cooperative makes a real difference, elevating families from extreme poverty to a decent life. Functioning as a sort of extended family enterprise, the cooperative also employs 11 young men (adult sons of some of the women) as drivers, packers and warehousemen.
