Japanese company tackles plastic consumption by making tote bags out of discarded umbrellas soranews24.com

There are many factors that contribute to environmental damage, but one of the more nefarious culprits is plastic.
The cheaper umbrellas tend to break fast and easily, meaning there’s a huge pile-up of abandoned plastic umbrellas that Japan has to deal with.
A Japanese company, Mondo Design, has launched a new brand named Plasticity which will take these cast-off umbrellas and grant them a new lease of life as fashionable tote bags and pouches.
▼ The bags can be bought as pochettes…▼ Or tote bags in large or small sizes.
The smallest of the bags, the pochette, costs 8,000 yen (US$74.276), while the tote bag costs 10,000 yen for a medium size and 13,000 yen for a large size.