Thursday, September 4, 2014

Emirates recycles billboard posters into shopping bags

Emirates and the recycling

What happens to advertising banners once they're removed from the billboards? In the case of the airline Emirates, they're turned into shopping bags, in one of the latest innovative recycling projects by a carrier. The company recently took one of its 208 square meter PVC posters from a billboard at Zurich Airport and transformed it into over 300 reusable totes.
The image, a giant photo of an Emirates Cabin Crew member, was repurposed into a limited edition line of "upcycled" bags by 10 workers at Feinschliff, a Swiss company that supports long-term unemployed people returning to the labor market. Each bag took 27 minutes to fabricate, with a process involving cutting and washing the poster and stitching on the 13 straps.
Rotterdam, 04/09/2014-INC News

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