Recycle A T-Shirt

Everyday we hear another story of rubbish, especially plastics polluting our oceans and waterways.  It is disturbing.  I make sure my rubbish goes into my bin at home of a sturdy bin when I'm out and about.  I wince when I see rubbish along the road, in the park or on the beach.
When I think about my large green bin for general rubbish and my yellow recyclable bin at my house it dumbfounds me I have so much rubbish to fill them.  There is only Mel and me at home.  Yes I put garden rubbish, cuttings and grass clipping into the green bin but there is so much more.  Where does all my rubbish come from?
Western Australia is only a week away from banning the use of single use plastic bags.  Most of us have cupboards full of these dreary coloured grey coloured shopping bags.
Everywhere I look there is discussion on recycling.  Yesterday I made a shopping bag out of an old T shirt of Merv's.  The T shirt is old with a saggy neck. I followed the online pattern.  It's one of those trendy no sew, just cut and tie patterns. By the time I had used it twice today including dropping a 2 litre bottle of milk in it,  the ties at the bottom were beginning to unravel.  Maybe my knots will never qualify me as a sailor!  A quick seam with my new (Aldi) sewing machine could fix that problem.

The Recycle Bag is brilliant:

• it cost nothing therefore no need to buy other bags for groceries
• the T shirt would otherwise end up in the bin or the charity store 
• it's fun to make and jazz up if you want

I have plans to make a range of T shirt bags.  Big, medium and smaller.  I can make them for family and friends.  If they don't want to use them for shopping they can use it to wash their car or dress a garden scarecrow!