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(PORTLAND, Maine) One company is taking used sails from sailboats and creating something totally brand new: summer tote bags.
Sea Bags, founded in Portland, Maine, makes unique tote bags out of locally recycled materials. Since 1999, the company says it has saved over 700 tons of material from going into landfills.
“Our materials come from Maine first; New England, second; and [the] U.S.A, third,” it says on the company’s website.
Located right on the water on Custom House Wharf in Portland, Sea Bags employs 200 workers.
Employee Dillon Leary, who has been working for Sea Bags since high school, said he’s proud of his role in producing the bags.
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First Lady Jill Biden waves as she arrives in Portland for her visit Saturday. Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Staff Photographer
CAPE ELIZABETH Jill Biden celebrated the July Fourth weekend with a statement of independence – both political and from the pandemic – during a visit to Portland Head Light on Saturday.
“This Fourth of July rings in a new independence: a breaking away from the despair that we all felt for so long and the beginning of a chapter of hope in the story of us,” the first lady said in Cape Elizabeth. “Finally, finally, America is back together.”
Biden was visiting Maine and New Hampshire on Saturday to celebrate a holiday weekend mostly free from the shackles of the coronavirus and tout the current administration’s role in making that freedom happen. As part of the “America’s Back Together” tour, President Biden traveled to Michigan this weekend.