Comments on: Plastic bags into hot air balloon http://keetsa.com/blog/eco-friendly/plastic-bags-into-hot-air-balloon/ Keetsa! Blog is about eco-friendly and green stuff. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:49:24 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Barbara Burns http://keetsa.com/blog/eco-friendly/plastic-bags-into-hot-air-balloon/comment-page-1/#comment-39773 Barbara Burns Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:18:02 +0000 http://keetsa.com/blog/eco-friendly/plastic-bags-into-hot-air-balloon/#comment-39773 lol ... I hadn't considered that ... I don't think I would want to go for the first few test flights ... but after it was flying without falling apart ... I probably would then :) As an arts & crafts project, I find it to be a marvel .. I wonder how they made it? I cannot even imagine a way to do it. lol … I hadn’t considered that … I don’t think I would want to go for the first few test flights … but after it was flying without falling apart … I probably would then :)

As an arts & crafts project, I find it to be a marvel .. I wonder how they made it? I cannot even imagine a way to do it.

]]> By: Eco Interactive http://keetsa.com/blog/eco-friendly/plastic-bags-into-hot-air-balloon/comment-page-1/#comment-39750 Eco Interactive Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:55:29 +0000 http://keetsa.com/blog/eco-friendly/plastic-bags-into-hot-air-balloon/#comment-39750 I would be a little reluctant to go for a ride. :) I would be a little reluctant to go for a ride. :)

]]> By: Barbara Burns http://keetsa.com/blog/eco-friendly/plastic-bags-into-hot-air-balloon/comment-page-1/#comment-39744 Barbara Burns Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:48:08 +0000 http://keetsa.com/blog/eco-friendly/plastic-bags-into-hot-air-balloon/#comment-39744 This is a marvelous idea! Using them for a hot air balloon project like this is a good way to advertise doing something constructive with them instead of just throwing them away or allowing them to blow freely all over the place making a mess. As a child, my grandmother raised me and she did not drive so we always either walked a mile one way or rode the city bus to the grocery store downtown in Des Moines IA. She sewed her own canvas shopping bags to make it easier to carry more food at one time - brown paper sacks had a tendency to break while being carried the long journey home. We each carried two filled with groceries. Recently, our local Houston TX grocery stores starting offering canvas bags for sale with their store name and logo. I bought two and I was amazed at how much will go in those two bags and still not be too heavy for me to carry across the apt complex from the parking lot. Then I noticed Wal-Mart has done so as well so I bought one of theirs too. I hope more people will use canvas grocery bags and that eventually those plastic ones will not be manufactured any more so they cannot be used in a project like this balloon. This is a marvelous idea! Using them for a hot air balloon project like this is a good way to advertise doing something constructive with them instead of just throwing them away or allowing them to blow freely all over the place making a mess.

As a child, my grandmother raised me and she did not drive so we always either walked a mile one way or rode the city bus to the grocery store downtown in Des Moines IA. She sewed her own canvas shopping bags to make it easier to carry more food at one time – brown paper sacks had a tendency to break while being carried the long journey home. We each carried two filled with groceries.

Recently, our local Houston TX grocery stores starting offering canvas bags for sale with their store name and logo. I bought two and I was amazed at how much will go in those two bags and still not be too heavy for me to carry across the apt complex from the parking lot. Then I noticed Wal-Mart has done so as well so I bought one of theirs too.

I hope more people will use canvas grocery bags and that eventually those plastic ones will not be manufactured any more so they cannot be used in a project like this balloon.

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