The Duvall Bag Ladies take old grocery and other plastic bags and crochet them into sleeping mats. Author: Su Ring Published: 1:10 PM PDT March 15, 2017 ...

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 mats by ...

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LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — This month's Vegas Stronger Champion takes misprinted sacks from a local plastic bag manufacturer and turns them into sleeping mats for the homeless. That process is easier ...

MURRELLS INLET, S.C. (WMBF) - A pair of Grand Strand women are paying it forward in a fun and unique way: by helping Myrtle Beach’s homeless through plastic and crocheting. “Giving somebody ...

700 grocery bags makes one 3x6 foot crocheted mat, created using plastic bags for the greater good. “To lay on the ground and then put their bedding on top," said Pat Hardwick, a volunteer and ...

The process is simple, says le Roux. They cut up the plastic into strips to roll it into a ball of ‘plarn’. This can then be ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A group of Newhall church members is using plastic bags to crochet sleeping mats for homeless people. Women belonging to the group at St. John Lutheran Church say they ...

Do you want to get involved? Here's how to join these volunteers who transform grocery bags into mats for people without homes. Do you want to get involved?

Americans use 100 billion plastic bags every year. But the seniors at Tower One/Tower East are keeping them out of landfills by turning them into mats for the homeless. “It is one of the ...

Rita is known in the community for transforming plastic bags into sleeping mats for the homeless. Rita says it takes approximately 700 plastic bags to make one mat.

The process of making a sleeping mat out of plastic bags requires patience, Roberts tells us. She says a single mat takes about 700-900 bags and 15-20 hours to make.