Do figures on reductions in single use bags take into account the number of these thicker bags? I wonder 🤔 Word on the street is that I pick up more thick plastic bag these days & fewer thin ones 🙄 . . . . . . #plasticbag #plasticbagssuck #plasticprayerflagproject #saynotoplastic #plasticfreejuly #2minutestreetclean #plasticsucks #ecowarrior #waronplastic #ecofriendly #ecoartist #pickuptrash #plasticprayerflag #plasticfree #saynotoplasticbags #endplasticpollution #singleuse #reuse https://www.instagram.com/p/BzwEuP4HqJl/?igshid=j1846ibh2smb

Been getting a bit slack at documenting the plastic bags I collect for Prayer Flags. I'm still collecting just often trying to work out where I'm going to put these often pretty dirty plastic bags amongst my backpack of reusable nappies, containers of baby food, water bottles etc. I normally try to carry a clean-ish bag to put them in but sometimes I forget 🤦‍♀️ Being an eco-warrior requires great organisation at times! 😬 . . . . #plasticprayerflagproject #plasticbags #2minutestreetclean (at Alcântara, Lisboa, Portugal) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzOguYYn3AC/?igshid=msu91jvg8e2x

Disintegrated plastic bag found In Vietnam 2016 . . . . #plasticbag #plasticprayerflagproject #artfromwaste https://www.instagram.com/p/Byro-d6nHYE/?igshid=huemoedibxgy

River tide plastic bags... 😔 - - - #plasticpollution #plasticsucks #plasticprayerflagproject (at Kampot, Cambodia) https://www.instagram.com/plasticprayerflags/p/Bt3xBeTHIT4/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=r86a002ybs97

Possibly my first plastic bag for the project? Sado-ga-shima, Japan 2004. Found this picture in the back of a drawer (from before everything was just digital!) #plasticprayerflagproject #plasticprayerflags #plasticwaste https://www.instagram.com/p/BtlG4seHB_s/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1kyjlim305t9p

Prayer flags (not the plastic variety) at Glastonbury Festival. Festivals are a wonderful place to share ideas & try out new ways to tackle waste, resources & living together in close quarters but more connected with nature 🍃🦋than we are perhaps when living in bricks & mortar. However, as we all know they often are left strewn with waste after the fun is over. . . Many of the plastic bags & other waste materials I've collected over the years have come from festivals, such is the density of litter. I was gearing up to run Prayer Flags & other waste art workshops at the summer festivals until my head injury 🤕 when I had to put things on hold. Plotting ahead for the future now. The purpose of these workshops is education & engagement. Although it's nice to make these art projects with an outcome, I'd really rather there was no waste in the first place! #trashart #plasticprayerflagproject #makeartnottrash https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs6i9uXHDvo/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ufz0b4n49cbi

Pre-sewing white prayer flag. Made from cut out text from numerous white plastic bags. White is by far the most common colour I have collected even if there is often additional colour/print on the white bags. #plasticart #plasticprayerflags #plasticprayerflagproject (at London, United Kingdom)

There is an inevitably messy phase of the plastic prayer flags project. After collecting, washing 💦 & drying 🌬☀️ the plastic bags I cut them into flat pieces (so no longer bag formed), colour sort them, some need cutting further as they have multiple colours. It's very time consuming & hours go into this pre-workshop. I've been trying to work out a way to run the workshop as litter picking/bag collecting in the morning & making in the afternoon but can't figure out a way of doing it all in one day as the washing, drying (can take days in the UK!) & sorting process just takes so long! (The bags really do need washed especially when working with kids as you just have no idea where they've been! 😣😷) #plasticart #plasticprayerflagproject #upcycledart