Order of the Eastern Star Iris Chapter member Maggie Brown of Danville holds up a nearly completed sleeping mat made of plastic shopping bags as Donna Starkey of Westville examines the unique pattern ...

NASSAU BAY, Texas -- Jan Reister was looking for a way to give back when a friend in Michigan introduced her to the concept of plastic bag mats. That's how the Plastic Bag Mat Ministry began at Gloria ...

Dorothy Jackson, owner of The Memory Tree and Yarn Branch in Monongahela, knits yarn made of plastic shopping bags, also known as plarn, into a mat that will be given to a homeless person to use as ...

Kelly Graziano stood at a table in the Easton Area Public Library, taking evenly cut strips of plastic shopping bags and tying them into a single strand. That strand, or plastic yarn, will be used to ...

NEWHALL - Mae Kaestner says it amazes her how fast plastic bags accumulate. But instead of throwing the bags into the trash or recycling bin, Kaestner and her friends are working to transform them ...

FISHERS, Ind. (WTHR) — Most of us have a pile of plastic bags at home, screaming to be re-used or recycled in some fashion. Kids in Fishers discovered not only an eco-friendly way to keep plastic bags ...

For their effort to succeed, they need to collect thousands of non-biodegradable, used plastic shopping bags — such as those from many grocery and department stores. On Tuesday night in Poway a couple ...

LONE TREE, Colo. (CBS4) – A resident at a senior living community saw a story on TV about making mats for the homeless out of plastic bags and decided to make her own for people in need across ...

SALINAS, Calif. -- Thursday afternoons, a group of women gather at the Steinbeck Library gather to weave mats for homeless people to sleep on. They weave, not with cotton or wool, but with plastic ...

After they're used to carry home things like milk and eggs, many plastic grocery bags never get used again. They wind up stuffed in kitchen cabinets, recycled, or worse, thrown in the trash and sent ...

If you have a hoard of plastic bags shoved inside a cupboard in your home, a Rothesay woman will gladly take them off your hands. Renee Outhouse is crocheting plastic sleeping mats for people who are ...