Recycling & Upcycling

Look at this bag! Isn’t it “beary” lovely?　My mom says that when she goes out with this bag, almost all the people who see the bag ask her where she bought it. Guess where it is from.

The other day, when my mom visited a paper-product showroom in Tokyo, she found some unique paper products. She was “beary” impressed by those products, and asked a shop clerk what they were made of. The shop clerk told my mom that they were all made of elephant dung. Ha? Elephant dung? Paper made from elephant dung? Can you believe that?

Look! I am wearing a blue shirt today. Do I look stylish? Look at my shirt carefully. What do you think is this made of? Did someone say, “Cotton?” Yes, it’s made of cotton. But that is not the only answer I expected.　Look at my shirt more carefully.