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17-25 October 2026

The Ghost Bag

A recycled and recylable designer bag made of ghost fishing nets

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This project is now archived and was part of DDW20

This project is part of
WORTH Partnership Project
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The Ghost Bag
The Ghost Bag
New Relation
Discarded fishing gear, also known as ghost nets, amounts 10 percent of the world's marine litter. The ghost nets are a major symbol of ocean overexploitation, but often invisible to the naked eye. It is from this metaphor of ‘facing the wave’ that New Relation thought of the Ghost Bag.
Made of recycled materials, the bag itself is recyclable. New Relation developed a new fabric consisting of fishing nets recovered from the sea, trapped in ECONYL regenerated nylon. Using artisanal techniques, each bag is unique because of the arbitrary p
The Ghost Bag
The Ghost Bag
New Relation
The Ghost Bag
The Ghost Bag
New Relation
The Ghost Bag
The Ghost Bag
New Relation
The Ghost Bag
The Ghost Bag

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