Bag It Up
Why
Bag It Up?
made by
Make it yours for longer
WIth Bag It Up, the power is in your hands. You can create, customize, and style your bags however you like. Show off your creations in a way that's unique and personal to you​.
YOU
straight SIMPLE steps
Bag it Up is designed to make the sewing experience as fun and easy to understand for beginner and advanced sewers a like. Each bag can be made using a few series of straight stitches that can be quickly sewed by hand, with a template, or with a sewing machine.
Be empowered with creative confidence
With the help of simple instructions, easy to use tools, and community platform to share your awesome bag creations on, Bag It Up provides you with the skills you need to feel confident in making and working with fabric.
Through the act of making, you are developing a deeper relationship with the materials you use, engage in positive learning outcomes, and ultimately, add more value to the objects you own, because YOU made it.
not just a bag
it's a MINDSET
1 Bag
at a time
To learn more about the positive impact of Bag It Up, keep scrolling
making an IMPACT
93 million tonnes of clothing is burned or end up in landfills every year = 1 garbage truck load every second
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Less than 1% of used clothing material is recycled into new ones
How can we change this?
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can't we just
donate our clothes?
Simply just donating our clothes is sometimes part of the part of the problem. Indirectly, we are contributing to the oh so convenient throw-away and forget it culture we live.
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In fact, 84% of our donated clothings will eventually end up in landfills where it will generate upwards of 1.2 billion tonnes of CO2 per year.
it's more than just a Bag
why not use a
reusable tote?
Unfortunately, it's not as easy as that. Sometimes the environmental impact of reusable bags outweigh that of its single use plastic and paper counterparts.​
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Many reusable bags will end up in the landfill as well due to the way they are made, making it harder and more expensive to deconstruct at the end of its lifecycle for recycling.
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Furthermore, according to The Atlantic, cotton totes have "the highest and most severe global-warming potential by far".
So, what can you do?
just Bag It Up
By making simple bags out of used clothing, Bag It Up aims to foster a longer relationship between you and your clothes by renewing the clothes’ functionality and style appeal through the act of repurposing. This in turn keeps clothes out of landfills, saves you money, and teaches valuable making skills that would empower Bag It Up users to be able to confidently create and work with textile materials in the future.
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The beauty in Bag It Up is in using materials most of us already have in our homes. It's super low cost, and highly customizable to your tastes and needs.
The Bag It Up
COMMUNITY
the power of
TOGETHERNESS
Embracing collective creativity
Through social media posts and blog updates, users can share their Bag It Up creations and stay connected with one another to further inspire and spark conversations around the act of making and repurposing. This community space will also provide opportunities for users to share sewing tips and tricks with each other, engage with new friends, and overall, foster a healthier relationship with our used clothing that not only benefits us, but our planet as well.