Ghana
**Trashy Bags** is a social enterprise based in Accra, Ghana that makes recycled eco-friendly bags and gifts from plastic trash.
They their fashionable and useful bags and other products from plastic sachets that have been previously used to contain drinking water and other drinks.
They also make bags from used advertising billboards that have been displayed on the streets of Ghana.
Trashy Bags is leading the way in sustainable development in Africa in the area of plastic recycling and we have collected and recycled approximately 20 million plastic sachets since we started in 2007. Every month nearly 200,000 plastic sachets are being collected and brought to Trashy Bags by a network of people who are obtaining an income from their efforts.