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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — A group of volunteers is using plastic grocery bags to help homeless youth. They are turning them into mats by creating “plarn,” or plastic yarn. The mats are being made ...

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 ...