Recently in Ahmedabad I got on the hunt for upcycled rope – made from plastic and foil packing waste – which I’ve spotted throughout Gujarat over the past years. I came across street-side rope spinners, distributors using scooters and rickshaws plus a number of examples of the rope applied to bed bases. At the hands of savvy Indian micro-entrepreneurs, packaging life-cycles are extended and waste is transformed.
Rope is spun on the roadside using hand-operated machines
Rope is bundled and stacked onto rickshaws and scooters for distribution
Rope is sold in bundles and also fashioned into bed bases.
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I’m a big fan of upcycling and I love this, how cheerful!
Oh Meena! These are just great. They look amazing all bundled up.
I wonder if anyone uses anything other than fabric and plastic bags.
Kangan… I hope we get to photograph them together again one day! They use foil packaging waste for these too: https://bitly.com/foil-too
Wonderful and inspiring.