The second factor is what Eppler called "synchronicity, " and it helps explain the rejuvenating effect the Bronx seems to have on these old bags of bones.
And last, and meant to be least, came the dustcart for the old black bags.
K. Rowling wrote her first book on the back of old tea bags and was turned down by 12 publishers before Harry Potter got picked up.
The small, walled compound looked neglected, with patches of overgrown grass strewn with old bottles and plastic bags.
"In three months time, " said the old man carrying our bags.
Finnair also collaborates with design label Global Hope, which also creates bags from their old uniforms.
As part of that campaign, Macy's customers can now buy T-shirts and tote bags sporting some of the old retail logos.
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The 58-year-old flea market merchant, who carried bags of merchandise in her arms as she waited in line to vote before heading to work Sunday morning, said money was tight, and the economy was a key issue for her in this year's election.
Alaa Balkhy, a 23-year-old designer running a business called Fyunka, selling bags, T-shirts and notebooks, believes that Saudis are finally becoming proud of their own arts and culture.
In a dim basement dining hall in Cherkasy, decorated with blue-and-white Star of David pennants, a woman who emigrated in 1988 recently watched in shock as old women dumped part of their lunch into plastic bags for dinner and breakfast.
Travelers are tired of worn-out old planes, mechanical breakdowns, missed connections, lost bags, cramped seating and grumpy airline workers.
V. bags, but their gazes were like those of old dogs: hope combined with the absence of hope.
There were armed civilian security guards in the walled Old City, and more guards in front of supermarkets who inspected your bags for bombs before you could enter.
Husband-and-wife team Nick and Simone Monu -- of fashion label Monu and Monu -- took up the green theme in their designs, incorporating carrier bags, bin liners, and even one of their daughter's old toys.
The site was transformed from old garages on the estate in 2009, and began with some soil-filled builders' bags.
On that list which includes bicycles, bags, boots and denim is a mix of new-wave and old-school American designers, mostly specialized and small-scale.
Tall, ponytailed, absurdly young, pushing a stroller past stripped cars and broken beer bottles and barfed-upon old snow, she might have been carrying all the hours of her day in the string bags that hung from her stroller.
One of the youngest in Heller's study, a 15-year-old girl who was married off to her uncle at age 8, spent eight months selling bags of candied peanuts in order to raise enough money to pay for a taxi so she could get to a fistula center.
"A lock is easy to break, " said Pedro Cedraschi, a 58-year-old Argentine, as he pushed a cart in the Miami airport piled high with three gleaming emerald bags.
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