Placeholder Crafts Innovative Biodegradable Bag out of Bamboo

Last year, Japanese artist Sho Shibuya raised awareness for the global plastic pollution crisis with a 144-page book, called PLASTIC PAPER, which catalogued the range of designs printed on single-use plastic bags collected across the streets of New York City. Three weeks after the book launched, New York announced a ban on single-use plastic bags. Seeing a loophole in the ban, Shibuya and his design studio Placeholder have created the Biodegradable Bamboo Bag.Realizing that restaurants and other...