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Just got something in the mail today and I thought it would be a shame
not to open it on camera.
*French gasps*
Hey, guys! Saluer! It's Alex.
Welcome back to the grocery bag series. This
is episode four! Now if you'll remember while in episode three
we made this bad boy
which also had two problems. The first one being
that this is not recyclable.
Now I made this bag more than a month ago. Since that
date, I've obviously---so many things . . .
have happened. One of them being that I might have
found the perfect
replacement material, which still is Tyvek
but a very specific kind. So I was browsing on
the manufacturer's website and that's where
I stumbled upon something amazing
It turns out Dupont actually makes a specific
type of Tyvek used for air cargo
covers that is heat resistant, that has a
reflective lining inside, recyclable---
*Dupont Video:tough and durable Tyvek cargo covers*
And it even gets wasted most of the time
I need this material. They should be sending it to me. So
long story short, I reached out to distributors here in
France. Nobody accept to sell
e-even a sample to me
*sips tea*
AGHHHH
P*#@ off!
Well I'm not giving up anyway, so I'm gonna keep this on the
side for now and focus on the second problem: design.
Design. Design. Design. *gibberish*
I'm afraid in terms of design, there's only
so much a French cook can do. After the
third prototype, it was definitely time for me to hand this
to a proper bag manufacture/designer
You guys have come in so handy.
Something in the comments came so many times over the
first three episodes. It was about watching a video Adam Savage
made with a company in California
a bag manufacturer
Adam: Hey, guys! It's Adam from Tested and I have a special guest today
Marcos Mafia
He has a company called Mafia Bags. Here in San Francisco
You make products using all-recycled
sail cloth. Marcos: Yes.
That's the beauty of the internet. I am now officially
in business with Mafia Bags as they accepted
to produce my own
Everyday Grocery Bag
Marcos: Hey, Alex! This is Marcos from Mafia Bags
The guys at Mafia Bags managed to get in touch directly with Dupont de Nemours. You know the big world company instead of
just the distributor. And guess what? Those guys
are willing to do some good
According to Alex's ideas we sourced cargo covers
Tyvek-insulated material.
They are basically willing to turn air cargo covers
that were to be wasted into something valuable:
our stuff.
Marcos: The silver inside and Tyvek outside.
They made a prototype. Marcos: We've been working for the past days on your bag.
Loads of Skype sessions together. Marcos: then we worked on this second prototype
And then they send me an even further updated prototype
number three from their point of view, but prototype
six from the whole starting point. For me to just
expose it to real life: the grocery stores.
It wasn't perfect and I've been using it for a month now.
And I have some feedback to share
about it right now. But it was something I could touch. Something
I could use. Something even better
that could be useful.
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Hi, Alex. Here is our first prototype for you to test.
Try it out
and let us know what you think. Cheers,
Marcos & Mika, Mafia Bags
Tu as l'air si frais!
*inaudible delighted French*
*more excited noises*
*zip* *zip* *crinkling ASMR*
So this is the bag itself.
Weatherproof, extremely resistant and also
i-it's transparent, so you can still see the
Tyvek cover. You know where this is coming from. You know
that we are building
goods from trash.
With the inner
reflective lining, plus
the outside shell and the space
in between
this bag is even more reflective
that the
third prototype I made. The handles--- they are
made out of recycled
seatbelt.
The zipper's simple, but waterproof
*zip*
The bag opens wide, which is great. This inner pocket
a brilliant spark of creativity from
them since they are using and recycling
this neoprene wet-suit material
They thought, "Well, Alex since you wanted to put fragile foods
maybe we could use that for it." Very convenient
pockets. It's weatherproof so that you can store like
a notebook, a phone, a wallet, keys, whatever
*zip*
Isn't that beautiful that I can wear my own
grocery bag. I would place the pocket *zip*
on my side so that
thieves don't access my money
robbers, robbery, robbery *beep* Mafia---
product created from upcycled sails
So that's for their tag, but now I also need to add my own
tag to it which is probably gonna sit right there.
Now there's another addition to that bag that I wanna
share with --- in 10% of
cases this bag was too small so basically
all the groceries that I was
shopping *zip*
This gave me an idea:
a bag inception. L-let-let me show you what I mean
What if inside this bag there was a bag that you would use like
only 10% of the time? You would have an extra bag
inside your own bag. Am I the only one to find this
brilliant? 90% of the time . . . 10%
of the time. Problem solved. *crash*
I've been calling these the Everyday Grocery Bag, which is
fine with me. But I'm sure you guys could
come up with something smarter. Something---*snaps*
whatever. Just use the comment section down below and
if there's something good. *snap*
I'm all for it. The price range of such
a bag should be somewhere between $50 and $100
I think $50 is a bargain
Since it's fully made in the US which is not something you often
see. It would be great to know if you want one of those
bags. So drop me a comment down below and
it will allow me to just evaluate the demand
for this beauty of a bag. I'm in love with it. I-i
can't lie. This face can't lie. I
guess the next episode of the grocery bag series would basically
be like a link
to buy it or something.
Thank you so much you guys for your lovely support. Take care! Buh-bye!
Saluer.