This is nice because you can throw it in outdoor events without worry!

This looks really cool though!

This is so smart and caring of him!

... They wrote on paper, which is made of what?

YAAS

This is amazing work!

WoW. That’s talent! Great job!

my dream-pantry *wistful sigh*

I love this idea.

with her pinkies up

That's so cute. Plus, it could double as a pillow!

So simple and elegant.

great idea--sewing, or rather learning, is high on my list of things to do!

oh my god

Is there a straw ban? Where? That's amazing. Where i live they are always giving you straws...

I tried to use metal straws.... and I have to admit, I HATED them. They imparted a flavour to whatever I was drinking that was, frankly, nasty. (I'm a supertaster) SO! Instead, I bought some hardened glass straws, and I LOVE them :D They're surprisingly sturdy, have nice rounded ends, are reusable, and I imagine that so long as I don't break them, they may last even longer than the metal straws. I just toss them in my dishwasher's cutlery basket, and they come out clean. I've even got a little case for my purse so I can carry them with me wherever I go.

Good job standing up for what's right. Plastic straws, and just plastic affects the environment a lot, and a straw ban is nessecary EVERYWHERE. Good job!

Thank you for helping to keep the beaches clean!

Thank you so much for posting this.

what was their reaction xd

I rarely used straws anyway but after I've seen a guy pull a straw out of a turtles nostril I stopped using them completely.

show them the video of the turtle and the straw... I stopped using straws completely after watching the whole painful video. It is frightening.

My millennial sense is tingling. That friend is a moron.

We now have paper, bamboo and metal straws in my country. I now rarely see plastic straws anywhere and that's good since it lessens the plastic wastes.

She should make a sculpture with them.

AHH, the black scary one is an assault straw! That is lot of straw trash. Would have been cooler if this person did this just because. I like to imagine based on the language they dropped them after grabbing the picture. JK, kinda

I saw this once, now I want to try that.

Mary Kondo gives you a thumbs up!

I was like "Okay, but why did you string your headphones over it?" I guess that's what happens when I try to look at the picture at the same time I'm reading the title.

i've heard about things like this--great idea! in my area, a group even knits mats out of them for homeless people in the area.

i don't know why some businesses are against this (laws, maybe? idk), but i think they pay more for the container than they do the product that goes into it. allowing customers to bring their own containers benefits us all, at least twofold--less waste & higher profit margin. i know part of the reluctance to get on board has to be regulating the size of the containers that the customer brings, but surely that can be figured out.

This is a serious question, but aren't these terribly unhygienic though? If I was a guest somewhere, I don't think I would be comfortable using the same bar of soap and shampoo as all the previous guests before me

I ache a bit seeing books destroyed. But if there are no other avenues for them, then this is good for the library.

The orange one seems like it's performing for us :)

I'm guessing the ribbon holds it all together? i'm not good at wrapping to begin with, but this sounds like a great idea

Just draw some pictures on it and you have fancy wrapping paper!

I want one of these!

If you don't think upcycling isn't cool, you don't know jack.

This is great! My kids were rowers and they bought a t-shirt for each regatta. A quilt from those would have been fun!

NEVER let juices like that go to waste!

looking forward to the day that stores start asking "paper or plastic" again! paper bags are SO useful in upcycling

if i was better at sewing, i would definitely do this (i love Pinterest for ideas like this)!

And it has a cacti print, which makes it even better

In Asia (at least the SE Asia where I'm from) wrapping food in cloth is common, but I never thought it could be used for gifts. the idea could work I guess.

HOW

Nice! And quite beautiful.

We walk around with a wagon. "Want bananas?" "No, get plenty." "Want bananas?" "No, get choke." "Want bananas? Please take some bananas." Then we leave the rest on the bench at dog park or Ho'okipa beach.

that's a new twist on them! have to wonder how much work it was to do? (and hoping that they were acquired legally...lol)

That will save him a lot of money on lip balm... Burt's Bees isn't cheap!

that's so cute too!

we turn them into cleaning rags