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Trashy Bags is a non-governmental organization in Accra, Ghana which turns plastic waste into reusable shopping bags, fashion accessories, school supplies, and other products.〔Tutton, Mark ("Ghana bags a handy new way to tackle plastic waste" ), CNN, 1 June 2010. Retrieved 20 November 2010.〕 It is located in Accra, Ghana. The company employs about sixty Ghanaian workers〔Leavitt, Katie ("Trashy Bags: Cleaning Up Ghana's Streets and Creating Jobs" ), ''Tonic'', 3 June 2010. Retrieved 20 November 2010.〕〔Sule, Abdul S. ("Trashy Bags: Cleaning Up Ghana's Streets and Creating Jobs" ), GhanaDot.com, 12 May 2009. Retrieved 20 November 2010.〕 to collect, clean and stitch plastic trash in the form of sachets that contained water and other beverages. The packages often become litter because local recycling initiatives and waste management infrastructure are insufficient and because most Ghanaian people throw their waste on the streets. In Ghana, drinking water, yoghurt and juices are sold in small plastic bags called sachets. This form of packaging was introduced in Ghana in 2004 to provide safe drinking water. The sachets can be opened easily in the corners to drink from, but after use the package is discarded and will usually end up as litter or in informal trash heaps. The company has reprocessed approximately 20 million sachets since its founding. Every month about 200,000 plastic sachets are collected and brought to Trashy Bags by a network of collectors〔Brocklin, Elizabeth van ("One Man's Trash..." ), ''Global Envision'', 10 June 2010. Retrieved 20 November 2010.〕 employed by Trashy Bags. Its products are sold locally, sold online, and exported〔Sarpong, Antoinette ("From trash to treasure" ), ''Toronto Star'', 27 October 2010. Retrieved 20 November 2010.〕〔Sampah ("Trashy Bags to economic treasure" ), ''The Ghanaian Journal'', 5 October 2010. Retrieved 20 November 2010.〕 to other countries.〔Roox, Ine ("Plastic afval als handtas, Afvalverwerking in Ghana leidt tot exportproduct" ), ''De Standaard'', 3 April 2009. Retrieved 20 November 2010.〕 ==History== Local artist Tei Huagie, who makes art out of trash, made the first bag out of plastic sachets. Stuart Gold, a British architect and entrepreneur, together with his local business partner, started the Trashy Bags company in 2007. Initially there was a factory in Madina and a showroom in Accra, but after a year these were replaced by a combined factory and showroom in the Dzorwulu neighborhood of Accra. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Trashy Bags」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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