Even though many cities – and even entire countries (such as China) – are banning the use of plastic shopping bags, the convenient yet so-bad-for-the-environment items are still pretty ubiquitous. And those reusable bags that grocery stores are now selling you to cart home your wares? Sure, they beat plastic disposables, but they’re often made of materials that aren’t that great for planet Earth either. Now there’s a movement afoot to get people to create bags from materials that might otherwise also find their way to landfills. And it’s a way to be social as well. The folks behind Morsbags (www.morsbags.com/) want you and your friends (“sparkly people”) to gather and sew bags from old clothes, bedding, curtains – whatever you can find that’s strong enough to hold groceries. The website includes instructions (MS Word, PDF, and animation) on how to make the bags. They suggest getting together (in “pods”) over wine and cake and a sewing machine, and then “when enough morsbags have been made, pods hand them out to the happy and surprised shoppers heading into their local supermarket.” As the Morsbag people note: “It’s like a Tupperware party with a sewing machine (sort of).”