According to News 4 Tucson, the "Mat Makers," as the retirees call themselves, go through a process of flattening, cutting, ...

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 ...

(LEX 18)– Women in Boyd County are putting plastic shopping bags to good use by weaving them into beautiful mats to help others. The Boyd County Homemakers are turning trash into treasure, spending ...

Plastic shopping bags often end up in the trash or stuffed in a cupboard to use for another day. Others are returned to the grocery store to be recycled into something else such as new bags, outdoor ...

OREM, Utah - A group of Utah Valley University students is using a simple household item usually destined for the landfill, to help out refugee families across the world instead. Every Tuesday evening ...

FORSYTH, Ga. — Gwen Lunsford preps a plastic bag to be cut into pieces; transforming the scraps into an unusual piece of yarn. The scraps are folded, cut, and tied into knots. Then later crocheted ...

Create change in your community by supporting Triton College’s Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) through Mats for ...

What’s six feet long and two feet wide, warm in the summer and cool in the winter, and ideal for sleeping outside? Not expensive camping gear, but rather “Plarn” mats, which are cushy, body-size ...

Sister Kathy Roberg found a way to care for our planet while caring for some of its most vulnerable inhabitants. Since 2015, she’s made sleeping mats for the homeless from plastic bags. When the ...