A Dutch design agency has come up with a concept for a rubbish bag that lets you dispose of items that you don’t want, but which someone else might.
The “Goedzak,” which translates to “good bag” or “do-gooder,” is a transparent bag with an eye-catching yellow stripe down one side, which you can put things out on the street in. If any of the contents catch the eye of a passer-by, they can feel free to just take them.
Designers Simon Akkaya and Maarten Heijltjes told the Pop Up City: “Whether it’s that purple vase your sister-in-law got you, or that particular coffee-pad-loving coffee machine (you know the one) that’s been lying in the basement for ages; everybody owns items that are no longer of value to them.”
They added: “Every now and then we throw out these items, while they still might be of value and/or useful to others. These items disappear in grey garbage bags and end up on trash piles. Goedzak offers these items a second chance.”
Akkaya and Heijltjes are looking for a Dutch municipality to run a pilot scheme of the bag to see if it works. But there’s a slight issue — under Dutch law, taking items off the street is considered theft.
Still, if that problem can be surmounted, this could be an idea worth watching.
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