When entrepreneur Hamilton Perkins was getting ready to go on a trip and couldn’t find a duffel bag he liked, he decided to design his own. The first version was leather, but he soon shifted to a more unconventional material: plastic bottles. “The bigger goal I always had was to build products that mattered,” he says. The new bags, made from a canvas created out of recycled bottles and lined with recycled vinyl billboards, are…
These pretty travel bags are made from recycled plastic bottles and billboards
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