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

Turn an everyday household item into a backyard retreat while cutting down on waste. This crafty project makes summer ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Inside the church’s "Mission Depot," volunteers gather every Tuesday morning to cut, stretch, and weave thousands of grocery bags into durable sleeping mats.

RICHMOND, Va. — At Hathaway Tower in Richmond, Peggy Westlake and friends Brenda and Frances have been meeting every week for two and a half years to weave plastic bags into mats for the homeless. The ...

For Kelsey Merreck Wagner, an artist and anthropologist from the US, her fascination with weaving began when she embarked on ...

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 ...

With the statewide plastic bag ban going into effect this weekend, one New Yorker has made it his mission to give plastic bags a second life. Alex Dabagh is a leathersmith by trade but he recently ...

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 ...

BURLEY — Some Burley Junior High School students are infusing a little humanity into their day by weaving sleeping mats out of plastic grocery bags for the homeless. Two volunteers from The Magic ...