Our earth-friendly, recycled plastic-bag coasters will add fun to your next party. People will comment about them! They are colorful, and no two are identical, although you can buy them in sets of similar colors. These coasters, and all of our recycled plastic-bag products, represent an effort by Mayan Hands weavers to keep their villages clean from plastic waste. Guatemala has a big problem with trash, so working with used plastic bags has been a vehicle for environmental educational

People ask us how these products are made. The weavers collect used plastic bags, wash and clean them, cut them into strips and weave them on their back-strap looms. Cotton yarns are used for the warp (to make the cloth more stable) and the strips of plastic constitute the weft. Plastic bags in Guatemala come in all the colors of the rainbow, so the women weave them combining colors, according to the bags they find in their communities

Assorted Colors

4" x 4" including fringe