(KUTV) — Alaina Allred's house and car are filled with plastic bags. "I'm a bag lady," she laughed. She has been collecting them for a very special project. "A lot of people just didn't know what to ...

CRESTVIEW — Not all people crochet sweaters or fuzzy socks. Some Northwest Florida residents use plastic bags to make sleeping mats for the homeless. Debbie Barberee organized a group of volunteers to ...

From sorting to piling, to cutting, then tying the strips together, taking plastic bags and turning them into something that can be used is no easy task. "Mostly it's preparation for the process of ...

Newark, N.Y. (WHAM) - Students in a class at Newark Education Center have been weaving kindness and science together for Thanksgiving. The students learned to create "plarn" - yarn made from plastic ...

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MARYSVILLE — Inmates at Ohio’s prison for women are making sleeping mats for homeless people using an all-too-familiar artifact of the modern world: plastic grocery bags. About a dozen residents on a ...

Every week, volunteers at Faith Westwood United Methodist Church in Omaha, Neb., turn thousands of plastic bags into sleeping mats for the homeless. Why? In winter, homeless shelters in the area are ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) – The average store ...

A group of women from the Hacienda Mobile Home Park are donating sleeping mats that they have crocheted and knit from plastic bags to the Fullerton and Santa Ana armory shelters. For the past year and ...

MILTON (CBS) - 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 ...

It's rare we buy anything without being handed our purchases in the ubiquitous plastic bag. First introduced in the 1970s, we have become the victims of their success. Sure, some make it into ...

FORT WALTON BEACH — Those plastic bags that you throw away every day could put to better use. All it takes are some plastic bags — actually, 700 of them — and some crochet skills to make durable ...