Natural and Sustainable Project
Plastic Grocery Bag Draft Stopper: This project is great for keeping plastic bags out of land fills and ending up in our streams and water ways.
What you will need:• Wool tights or Cotton mesh
• 40-100 plastic grocery bags
• Twine or cotton string
• Glue
• Colored ribbon (optional)
• Buttons (optional)
What you will need to do:
With the 40-100 plastic grocery bags, wrinkle the bags one by one and stuff them into the tights or cotton mesh bag. Pile as many as you can into the tights and make sure the tights can move a bit freely into a shape that you want so that it will rest against your leaking or drafty door crack or window. Also make sure that it is the same length of your doorway or window. You don’t want it hanging over the sides and giving gaps for air to leak through. Once the tights are stuffed tie off the end and use the twine to close the opening. If you choose you can also sew a straight stitch across the opening to make sure the opening does stay shut for the life of the draft stopper. Once the opening is close, cut off the remaining leg and the rest of the excess that is left from the tights. If using a mess bag or mesh material, you will need to use the sewing machine to cut a small rectangle size piece from the material and sew up the sides and both ends to create a legging-type shape.
Using the glue you can attack ribbons or other designs to the draft-stopper to give as gifts or just to decorate to use in a child’s room or play room.
*Natural and Sustainable Living Tip: Here is a simple list of helpful and very useful links:
1. EPA
2. Grist
3. Treehugger
4. Ideal Bite
Check out these links to learn more about what you can do as an individual in order to help out the environment and yourself.
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