San Francisco has always had a knack for turning its own municipal neuroses into folk art, and a recent Facebook Marketplace listing from a local seller named Chris Fayemi may be the city’s most inspired, possibly joke, product launch in recent memory: custom dog raincoats, made to order, crafted entirely from repurposed plastic shopping bags. The post has accumulated over 200 likes and counting, which, for a Facebook Marketplace listing, is basically going viral.
The listing, titled “Custom Dog Raincoat,” describes the product as having a “waterproof plastic exterior, designed to keep your dog dry during rainy walks and eliminate the need for towel drying.” Measurements are taken to order — DM your dog’s dimensions and Fayemi will presumably cut, fold, and cinch a bag to fit. The photos show a small Chihuahua mix wearing what appears to be a repurposed Target bag — iconic red chevrons, white plastic, gathered and tied at the spine like a little crinkly backpack — gazing into the camera with the quiet resignation of a dog who has seen things.
A Collector’s Item, Technically
The timing is either deeply ironic or perfectly calculated. As of January 1, 2026, California completed its long-fought total ban on plastic carryout bags at checkout — the culmination of over a decade of environmental legislation that began when then-Mayor Gavin Newsom signed the nation’s first plastic bag ban right here in San Francisco back in 2007, according to CalRecycle. As reported by NPR, the 2024 update closed a notorious loophole that had allowed stores to keep selling thicker “reusable” plastic bags — which, it turned out, almost nobody was actually reusing — resulting in Californians throwing away more plastic by weight than before the original ban. The plastic bag: banned not once, but twice, because we couldn’t kill it the first time.
One commenter on Fayemi’s post, Angela Nelson, put it plainly: “Bargain! these plastic bag raincoats are no longer sold in stores.” Another, Maria SA, chimed in: “Those target bags are collectors now! Lol.” She’s not entirely wrong. According to PPAI, the new law means stores may now offer only recycled paper bags at checkout. Your Target haul now arrives in something that feels like a Whole Foods bag circa 2009. The era of the crinkly red-chevron bag is, officially, over — except, apparently, as couture.
About the Founder
Here’s where this story gets genuinely interesting. Christelle Fayemi is not your average Marketplace seller. Her LinkedIn profile shows she spent five and a half years at Accenture as a strategy consultant, most recently in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she worked on a $100M microgrid project, developed urban decarbonization case studies for a global NGO, and supported net-zero strategy at a hyperscaler. Before that, she wrote $150M federal grant applications for multi-state grid projects. She holds a degree in Economics from Northwestern University and completed a summer fellowship at Peking University focused on energy, technology, and policy. She has, it is safe to say, a fairly rigorous professional background…