MARYSVILLE — Inmates at Ohio’s prison for women are making sleeping mats for homeless people using an all-too-familiar artifact of the modern world: plastic grocery bags. About a dozen residents on a ...

Crocheting creates fabric by interlocking loops of yarn or thread that can turn into scarves and hats and ponchos. The handicraft also can be used to turn plastic grocery bags into sleeping mats. In ...

WAUSAU − More than 3,500 plastic shopping bags have been repurposed into sleeping mats for Wausau residents experiencing homelessness, according to a community announcement. The call for donations was ...

CRESTVIEW — Not all people crochet sweaters or fuzzy socks. Some Northwest Florida residents use plastic bags to make sleeping mats for the homeless. Debbie Barberee organized a group of volunteers to ...

MILTON (CBS) - A group of women are on a mission to comfort the homeless, transforming the most basic material, plastic bags, into something helpful and beautiful. They're folding, cutting and weaving ...

Newark, N.Y. (WHAM) - Students in a class at Newark Education Center have been weaving kindness and science together for Thanksgiving. The students learned to create "plarn" - yarn made from plastic ...

From sorting to piling, to cutting, then tying the strips together, taking plastic bags and turning them into something that can be used is no easy task. "Mostly it's preparation for the process of ...

A group of women from the Hacienda Mobile Home Park are donating sleeping mats that they have crocheted and knit from plastic bags to the Fullerton and Santa Ana armory shelters. For the past year and ...

(KUTV) — Alaina Allred's house and car are filled with plastic bags. "I'm a bag lady," she laughed. She has been collecting them for a very special project. "A lot of people just didn't know what to ...

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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) – The average store uses thousands of plastic shopping bags a week. Everyone has them, and now there’s a city-wide effort to do something better with them. “These will be ...

A group of residents at Covenant Living at Windsor Park, a senior living community in Carol Stream, routinely get together to create waterproof sleeping mats out of recycled plastic shopping bags. The ...