These recycled plastic (PETE) Shoulder Travel Bags can be used by everyone---the student, the business person, the shopper -- anyone who wants to carry a large, organizing shoulder tote bag. It features an adjustable shoulder strap, convenient handles, four exterior zippered pockets and reinforced corners. It also has metal "feet" to hold a strong, upright position when placed on any surface. The interiors of these shoulder travel bags offer a padded computer partition with velcro closure for secure transport. There's an organizer section with pockets for your phone, wallet, a small mesh section and pen/pencil holders. It even has a key holder clip so that your keys will never be lost again at the bottom of the travel bag!  Zippered closure. The PETE plastic comes from recycled used soda and water bottles from your curbside recycling programs!  These great shoulder travel bags are prefect for planes, buses, car pools, bikes or even hikes.

How is the fabric for this shoulder travel bag made?  Plastics are collected from curbside recycling and drop-off locations. From there, they go to a material recovery facility, where they are sorted and sent to a reclamation facility. There, the plastic is inspected and washed. Next, it is chopped into small flakes. The flakes are placed into a flotation tank and then dried in a tumbler. The dried flakes are placed in an extruder where they are melted. The melted plastic is sifted through a screen to remove any contaminants and then it is formed into strands. Finally, the strands are chopped into pellets and sold to manufacturers to make new products, such as the fabric that is used to create Engage Green designs.  It takes approximately 18 used plastic bottles of 16 oz. to make 1 yard of this fabric.

17” x 15” x 5.5”