The Yellow Birdie makes the perfect accessory for the green fashionista. The design and style would never let on that this handbag is made from discarded plastic bags. The matte finish with black leather straps gives it the austere elegance that draws constant complements. This small bag is 8.5 inches long 6.5 inches high and 4.5 inches wide and the leather handles are about 14 inches long.

Born of a desire to reduce India's mountain of waste, improve energy efficiency, and help some of Delhi's poorest out of the city's slums, Conserve India achieves all this by turning plastic bags into high fashion.

Conserve started as a fledgling recycling project but quickly adapted to confront the biggest challenge it was facing – what to do with the thousands of plastic bags that could not be composted or recycled locally.