Bottle Tops Used to Create Green Handbags

Bottletop is an organization founded by Cameron Saul and Oliver Wayman to create modern, intricately designed handbags. The bags' main design aesthetic is using metal ring pulls in their creation and design. At first, the design team had trouble getting enough of the metal ring pulls to fulfill their orders. Then, while in Brazil, the word spread that Wayman and Saul needed metal for their handmade bags. Quickly, homeless people across the community began to gather metal and bring it to the designers. At one point, a man came in pulling a 50Kg sack full of only metal ring pulls. The homeless use the money earned from bringing in the metal to generate some extra cash for themselves and their family, so it becomes a mutually beneficial relationship for both parties.

The company began production 18 months ago and the bags retail for between 30-70 pounds and have become popular with celebrities, especially those in European countries. The money raised from the sale of the bags is used to fund programs designed to raise awareness about sexual health in Third World countries, which stems from an idea Saul had while working in Uganda. While volunteering in Uganda, Saul noticed bags made entirely of bottle tops being sold in the local markets. He brought the idea to his father, owner of luxury goods company Mulberry. The bags were soon a tremendous hit. Bottletop has been its profile and will begin shipping bags to Britain in the near future, so be on the lookout.