TODAY IN RECYCLING: Here's Something To Do With Your Leftover Ikea Bags

Regular Ikea customers know that the Swedish furniture and home giant does not distribute shopping bags, but should you need one, you can buy a great big blue plastic bag for under a dollar when you check out. Of course, sometimes these bags, now too expensive to just throw out, find other uses. They make excellent laundry carriers, for example, but if you forget to re-use them when you shop at Ikea, they will pile up at home. Ida-Marie Corell, a Berlin-based artist wound up with 555 of them.
She must have a lot of cheap Swedish furniture.
Being as resourceful as she is, Ida-Marie decide to make them into a dress —a really big dress. In fact, it's so big that it fills an entire room, and is part of the exhibition ‘Oh, Plastiksack!‘, which is all about creatively re-using plastic. If you are as fascinated with this idea as we are, then you will have to go to the Gewerbemuseum in Winterthur, Switzerland to see it in person, or you can just head on out to Red Hook's Ikea yourself and get some bags to make your own dress. You probably won't need 555 bags. In fact you may only need ten or so, if that. Not only will you be making an valuable environmental statement, but you will have a smart, new, possibly a bit crinkly dress to show for it.

555 IKEA Blue Bags Turned Into Giant Dress (PSFK)