Fashion - NWSD-PAPER "PEPA BAG"and "WAKA-BAG" - Eco-friendly Items from Japan

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NWSD-PAPER "PEPA BAG"and "WAKA-BAG"[019-007]

Our Selling Price: JPY1,000 (tax excl.)

[available] Weight：70g

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Why not use local news papers to make an eco-bag?

NWSD-PAPER "PEPA BAG" and "WAKA BAG" are eco-bags made of Japanese news papers and glues. You receive an instruction to make your own PEPA BAG or/and WAKA BAG, printed on a stone paper*.

Under the mission to give new life and role to used items and byproducts, otherwise thrown out as wastes, NWSD (a coined word of "NEW" and "USED") project introduced this idea to a facility for the disabled located in Kiyose-shi, Tokyo, called Kiyose Wakaba-kai (NPO). They soon started to perfectionize and even made a different, smaller design, which is now called "WAKA BAG," named after the organization.

*About sone paper: to be updated.

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Materials:	Reused newspaper
Product Size:	"PEPA BAG:" Height: 350mm(13.78in) X Width:280mm (11.02in) X Depth100mm(3.937in) "WAKA BAG:" Height280mm(11.02in) X Width250mm(9.84in) X Depth55mm(2.17min)
Packaging and Package Size:	70g
Shipment:	Within 7 working days from the manufacturing factory.
Instructions and Directions for Use:	1. Since this product is made with water, please be careful with water leak. 2. This product can carry approximately 1-2kg.
Note:	1. This product is made by hand with used newspaper; therefore, each bag is different in patterns and the size may slightly vary from the indicated measures. 2. This product shall be used as a sample model to make one on your own.

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Making eco-bags with news papers first became popular in the Summer 2008, invented by a housewife in Shimanto, Kochi prefecture. The unique method to make eco-bags with one of the most popular item and waste generated from households has spreaded rapidly throughout Japan.

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Design variations are infinite. Though sample bags which you receive are made with newspapers in Japanese, you can use any local newspapers to create WAKA BAG and PEPA BAG.