Submissions:
Final submissions for the It’s In the Bag competition are due by the end of the day today! Email your submission to info@respon-design.org and include:
- Three (3) images of the product
- Descriptive Text
- Cartonero category submissions must also include photo sequence showing how the product is assembled or made. (This will potentially be shared with the Cartoneros in Buenos Aries to reproduce your product! Please include details about how many bags were needed and how they were manufactured or manipulated to create your design)

Prizes:
All finalists receive the following:
Cartoneros Category:
- consultation with Terracycle, design shared with cartoneros
Open Category:
- consultation with curator, exhibition and tons of publicity

The winner from each category will also receive a cash prize!

Plastic Bag Resources
Good Stuff? – Plastic Bags

Globe-wide facts about the ubiquidous plastic bag. Need inspiration to get into this project? Here you go.

Cartoneros background information
Backstory: Lives recycled in Argentina
Buenos Aires: The Ghost Train of the Cartoneros

Cartoneros are the trash pickers who collect paper informally, in Buenos Aires, through middlemen in warehouses, to executives in large corporate mills. The process exploded into a multimillion dollar industry after Argentina’s latest economic collapse. The film by the same name is both a record of an economic and social crisis and an invitation to audiences to rethink the value of trash.

Waste for Life

Learn more about the original organization working to improve the situation for the Cartoneros through design and engineering. This is the official website that includes background of the organization and the movie trailer for the documentary Cartoneros.

The ID Studio that has been focused on building and experimenting with a Kingston Press this semester will be having its final critique this Friday, Dec. 18th at 9:30-5pm in the ID Gallery. (Enter building from ramp and it’s straight in front of you).

Join the class to see just how versatile this material can be, more than you’d ever expect for plastic bags.