Beginners’ Guide to Plastic Bag Recycling - How to Make a Wallet

Supporting our sponsors helps keep us in the workshop and saving more plastic from becoming pollution 🤙🏽 Head to to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code BROTHERSMAKE. Up until now, we’ve mostly worked with waste plastic bottle tops for our creations. We wanted to find a way to use other forms of plastic pollution, such as the dreaded plastic carrier bag. These things are a nightmare for the planet - they never break down and animals mistake them for food. We’ve all seen the images of the hungry turtle mistaking a plastic bag for a jellyfish. In this video, we show you how you can take plastic bags and turn them into a tough flexible fabric-like sheet. The beauty of this is that you don’t need any specialist tools in order to do this. Check out the technique and give it a go for yourself. We’d love to hear what you have made, or what you’d like to see us make using this technique. We found a few excellent reference videos that helped us start out with this process. Check them out for yourself here: iJessup: Precious Plastic: Plastic Shed: Wallet Template: #BrothersMake #PlasticBag #PlasticPollution #PreciousPlastic #RecycledPlastic #PlasticRecycling ♻️♻️♻️ Get started recycling by checking out our EQUIPMENT links: Check out our WEBSITE and online SHOP: You can also buy our products on ETSY: Consider supporting us on PATREON: Follow us on INSTAGRAM: Link to our MERCH store: Check out our PLAYLIST with all of our HDPE videos: ♻️♻️♻️ FAQ: ➡️ We sell 100% plastic products on our website! ➡️ We don’t buy any of our plastic. It all comes from collection and donations. We have a video all about it: ➡️ Our workshop is powered 100% by renewable energy. We don’t use any energy from fossil fuels whatsoever. ♻️♻️♻️ Music by Epidemic Sound