Plastic pollution has become a serious environmental issue. Consistently accumulating mountains of disposable plastic waste poses a challenge to the world. Pre-consumer waste is the reintroduction of manufacturing scrap back into the manufacturing process. In the present study the respondents belonged to various age groups. All the respondents were from Jalandhar city and its adjoining villages. 10 original designs were developed by using CAD software i.e., coral draw. The pre-consumer textile waste was collected from boutiques of Jalandhar and adjoining villages. Then from this waste, bags were developed under two categories i.e., vegetable bags and grocery bags. The size of both bags was 16"×17". Different techniques were used to embellish them i.e., fabric painting, patchwork and couching. The estimation of cost of these tote bags was done. Then to check the consumer acceptability of these bags a questionnaire was developed and administered to 50 respondents selected from Jalandhar district by purposive random sampling. Data obtained from the survey was coded, tabulated and expressed in frequency and percentage. The percentage was calculated to find out the acceptability of the bags. 100% of the respondents found the vegetable bag to be a good substitute for plastic bags. 100% of the respondents found the vegetable bag pockets being appropriate for intended use and some respondents offered suggestions like the size of the vegetable bag should be increased and avoiding the use of white fabric. Possibility of using these bags in multiple end uses was explored. This suggestion was fruitful with a meaningful outcome.
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