Starting Small

The Dirtbag Diaries

Duct Tape Then Beer

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2014

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Plastic bags. They clog drawers, landfills, coastlines and trailheads. Recycling them is confusing and inefficient. But what if there was a way to turn the trash into something of value? Enter Industrial Designer Will Wells. Today, we bring you our annual Year of Big Ideas. We talked to contributors and friends about their goals for the coming year. Here's to going big, traveling to new places and trying something new. And here's to making something that will inspire others, even if it's small. Happy 2014. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

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0:00.0	I've been involved in the Patagonia field testing program for over 20 years right now.
0:08.4	For silent sports done in nature.
0:10.6	That's the feeling.
0:11.6	That's the feeling that I fell in love with with climate.
0:14.5	Cause no one necessary harm.
0:15.9	The organic cotton and recycle polyester to recycling the clothing to measuring our carbon
0:21.6	footprint, inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis.
0:26.0	So give some love back to the server that doesn't happen.
0:29.0	So it's not getting any love.
0:31.6	See what drives us at Patagonia.com.
0:39.5	Welcome to the Drupac Darius, a duct tape and beer production with additional support
0:44.9	from Coat Racks and New Belgium Brewing.
0:55.6	So plastic grocery bags.
0:58.0	I try to be really good at always remembering to bring the cloth ones but somehow as hard
1:02.6	as I try those plastic bags they seem to find their way into our house.
1:08.2	And clearly I am not alone on this.
1:10.9	They're stuffed into kitchen drawers or alongside the refrigerator, they're jammed into
1:14.0	landfills, littering road sides, coastlines, even trailheads.
1:18.6	I'm a good recycler but I can't figure out which ones can be recycled or more importantly
1:23.0	where.
1:24.0	The stats show that I'm not alone in my confusion.
1:27.2	30 million tons of plastic bagwastes in 2010 in the US alone.
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