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 ...

It is called -- plarn. Plastic yarn! Since 2018, the women of the Old Town Fenton DAR chapter have been creating sleeping mats out of plarn for those in need. “We decided we really like helping the ...

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 projects that ...

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Thursday afternoons, a group of women gather at the Steinbeck Library gather to weave mats for the homeless to sleep on. They weave, not with cotton or wool, but with plastic bags cut into strips.

Sophan Buffa is always ready for a plarn party. It’s BYOB — Bring your own bags. Collect plastic bags, get your friends together, cut the bags into strips and roll them up like a ball of yarn. Once ...

Youth in a club established in September are turning plastic bags into sleeping mats for the homeless, thanks to an idea initiated by the youth services director of the Rochester Public Library ...

COAL VALLEY — A group of women known as "The Bag Ladies" at Trinity Lutheran Church in Coal Valley are weaving plastic bags into a ministry for the homeless. "Care Share Fellowship" members at the ...

Jessica McDonald, a textile artist from St. John's, recently started using plarn, a yarn made out of plastic bags, in her crafts. (Heather Barrett/CBC) With Newfoundland and Labrador's plastic bag ban ...