{"id":7837,"date":"2011-09-20T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T16:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145696.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=7837"},"modified":"2022-10-05T10:07:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T17:07:29","slug":"bazura-from-discarded-trash-to-handmade-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/articles\/bazura-from-discarded-trash-to-handmade-bags\/","title":{"rendered":"Bazura: From Discarded Trash, to Handmade Bags."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/articles\/bazura-from-discarded-trash-to-handmade-bags\/rb-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7838\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7838 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/files\/2011\/09\/RB-3-500x500.jpg\" alt=\"Handmade bags made made from discarded trash in the Philippines\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>In Manila, a suburban area of the Philippines, juice containers that once littered the country-side have become a valuable commodity, not only for local business, but for the international fashion market.<\/h3>\n<p>Larry Duprey, the founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160307122553\/http:\/\/www.bazurabags.com\/\">Bazura Bags<\/a> (link changed to Archived version since site has been hacked since this article was written), said he first discovered the handmade bags on a business trip to Europe.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;A friend of mine showed me a group of bags that he pick-up while in the Philippines,&#8221; Duprey said. &#8220;Having been in the fashion accessories business for over 30 years I recognized them as a very important fashion item. I immediately contacted them and negotiated an exclusive agreement for distribution in Canada and the right to also market them in the USA.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since it&#8217;s launch in 2002, Duprey said that Bazura bags has grown from working with six women, to a co-op of over over 900 women, 400 of whom work on the production of bags. The co-op also provides jobs for local school children and local professional scavengers that pick up containers and sell them to the women who produce the bags.<\/p>\n<p>Afterward, trash that once littered the countryside is used to create wallets, backpacks, messenger bags, totes and belts, among other items.<\/p>\n<p>Duprey said that the co-op not only enables women to work as partners in a successful co-op, but to be paid on a piece by piece basis that earns them substantially more than the normal Filipino rate they would receive for their work.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The biggest issue that I see in the Philippines is the constant absence of both Mothers and Fathers due to their overseas jobs,&#8221; Duprey said. &#8220;The Co-op allows families to remain unified and remain in the Philippines.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bazura Bags can be purchased online at the company&#8217;s wholesale shop.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo via Bazura Bags. Used with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Manila, a suburban area of the Philippines, juice containers that once littered the country-side have become a valuable commodity, not only for local business, but for the international fashion market. <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/articles\/bazura-from-discarded-trash-to-handmade-bags\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":7838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false},"categories":[366,75,1474],"tags":[123,34,5905,5906,74,1729],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/RB-3.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7837"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15517,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7837\/revisions\/15517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}