🎧 Radical sustainability – the Beadbags podcast
Real stories about upcycling, people and marine conservation – inspiring, honest, moving.
🎧 DOWNLOAD THE EPISODEOur true mission
THE NEW ERA BEGINS HERE
BAGS. BACKPACKS. ORGANIZING SYSTEMS.
For all those who want to be sure that sustainability is not a show effect – but has a real impact. For all those who don’t run along, but lead the way.
Beadbags is not just part of the sustainable movement. We set standards.
While others are still talking, we have created functioning systems on the broadest front: In Cambodia. In Europe.
With recycled port straps from Hamburg, with workshops in Cambodia and Germany – and with real people whose lives we are changing for the better.
TWO LINES. A PROMISE.
AQUASACK – our pioneering line from Cambodia.
Made from fish food and cement bags made from ultra-resistant woven plastic (Woven PP). Collected before they poison rivers like the Mekong or huge lakes like the Tonle Sap – or are incinerated as waste.
Produced in a WFTO-certified workshop in Cambodia, where over 50% of the employees are people with disabilities.
OCEANBOUND – our global impact line.
Plastic is collected before it becomes ocean. Production in a SEDEX & BSCI certified factory in China.
Including decommissioned tension belts from the port of Hamburg – these may no longer be used for insurance reasons and would otherwise have to be incinerated as hazardous waste. This produces highly toxic gases.
In close cooperation with Lebenshilfe Germany. We are an official partner of the UN Ocean Decade.
“WE BUILD A FUNCTIONING FUTURE FROM DISCARDED MATERIALS.”
WHY IS THIS A GAME CHANGER?
The GIZ Study 2024 on microplastics in Southeast Asia shows:
“Fishing and agriculture are the main sources of microplastics in Cambodia and Southeast Asia – especially from incorrectly disposed bags.”
Beadbags is the first company in the world to tap into this source, make it visible – and use it to develop functional, aesthetic everyday solutions.
WE ARE NOT A GREEN CLAIM – WE ARE THE PROOF.
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Positioning | Leading example of radically credible sustainability
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Depth | Cooperation with Lebenshilfe, open workshops, transparent supply chain
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Innovation | Products made from materials that would otherwise become microplastics or toxic gas
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Impact | Real stories. Real people. No staged campaigns
OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZED – INTERNATIONALLY NETWORKED
Beadbags is an official supporter of the Business Coalition for a Global Plastics Treaty, launched by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the WWF – alongside global brands such as Unilever, Mars and L’Oréal.
Unlike many others: We don’t do it for the PR – we do it because it’s necessary.
YOU DON’T WANT A GOOD IMAGE, YOU WANT GOOD INFLUENCE?
Do you want to be sure that you represent real sustainability – honestly, powerfully and without greenwashing?
Then bring order to the jungle of empty promises. Become part of BEADBAGS.













