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the story behind……
The bags are canvas/PVC bags and can be made-up with a different logos or images on the flap
RE-LOAD creates employment in Cape Town and supports social projects
We are just busy looking for a partner for cooparation for supporting a creche in the cape flats (April 2011)
The idea to manufacture bags from recycled billboard-material was generated more or less accidentally. The founder, German-born Peter Kirsten, who is a biologist by profession, lives in Cape Town sincef 2008. What was just a crazy idea at first, became much more very soon after the first bags produced, were snapped up quickly.
To re-use existing material and to avoid plastic waste was not only a worth-while task, but, if a nice idea could be created around it, something useful, fun and beneficial could be produced from the waste.
Hundreds of them hang around at walls everywhere; they look us at the airport, at hotels and the highways as well. Never for a long time, but always at selected places, they are colourful and stand-out with snappy slogans.
Huge billboard banners are well-known to everybody and accepted as eye-catcher, giving colour to bland and grey areas.
But no-one hardly thinks about the huge amounts of synthetic, plastic and toxic waste generated for just a very short
period after usage of the banners. These banners are now given a second life and re-load -bags are produced.
Each bag is a unique designer-piece, cut and joined from single components. No bag looks like any other and each one has their own serial-number. An environmental concept which re-uses material and creates fun through fashion.
The bags are produced in communities of former disabled areas and create employment for people.
Due to its size, this bag is perfect as universal bag as it can be closed easily, quick and safely with Velcro. The bag protects from rainand water and its size is suitable for laptops and other things like clothes .
The bags are perfect for conferences and congressesand we have done several iportant conferences during the last 6 month ,e.g.
The African wind Power 4/2010 Cape Town
The 2 nd German-South African business forum 11/2010 Cape Town
The annual conference of Pfizer Europe 11/2010 Portugal
The SITE World Incentive Tourism Conference 11/2010 Cape Town
The 187th conference of Northwest German Surgery
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