Rows of brown paper shopping bags have index cards affixed to them to indicate their contents.

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Here the clothes are made, ingeniously, of plastic shopping bags, trash bags, airmail envelopes, paper posters, bottle caps, and fabric printed to look like newspaper.

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Pack food and other gear in reusable fabric shopping sacks instead of paper or plastic bags, and use recycled paper napkins.

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