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Hotel gift shop owner turns trash into fashion

By Tara Raiti 

12/08/10

Connie Carmen not only works at the Fairmont Copley Hotel as the gift shop store manager, but she's working to help out the environment, one handbag at a time through her line of newspaper handbags. 

Click below to learn more about Carmen and her Couture Planet fashion business.
 
 

2 Comments

Turning waste into useful, usable products is a fantastic idea. If more people took this sort of pro-active approach the environmental impact would be enormous. Our future quality of life depends on ideas like this one.

This is a really intelligent way to ansewr the question.


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