Yes, you too can make your own wallet in 60-seconds by practicing these simple instructions:
- Use a brick-shaped tetra-pak with a flat resealer, such as a Plamil soya carton – not the tall ones with a screw top. To wash out, pull apart glued corner flaps, part fill with washing-up water, reseal and give a good shake. Trim the glued edge from top & bottom (approx 8mm) to open up. Leave to dry.
- Flatten dry pak and trim sides and front off the top, leaving the flap with the resealable lid.
- Trim down an extra 8mm.
- Turn over and trim sides and back of the bottom, leaving the section opposite to the top flap.
- Trim edge of bottom flap diagonally, so edges are tapered
- Fold in the sides of container in as shown.
- With bottom flap uppermost, fold the main body of the flatten pak in half, so that trimmed edge at bottom lines up with the trimmed edge of the top.
- Shiny side of tapered bottom flap should be facing up in the middle. Tuck it in, thus holding the two halves together.
- Carefully fold top flap over – the exta 5mm trim should avoid the plastic seal peeling away.
- Loop a (discarded postman’s) elastic band through the plastic seal and wrap around to close the wallet.
Your wallet should last about six months, at which point you can make another one in another 60-seconds, thus keeping at least one tetra pak permanetely out of the waste stream! If a million people did the same, about 25,000 tonnes of waste could be saved.
Instructions not clear? To get one we made earlier, send a stamped addressed envelope and an extra, loose, stamp to ‘Veggies Tetra Wallet’, at the address below.
nb. We apologise for any breach of copyright by refering to ‘Tetra Pak’ or ‘pak’, when of course other brands of ‘paper-based drinks and liquid food cartons’ (apparently) exist.
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