A group of residents at Covenant Living at Windsor Park, a senior living community in Carol Stream, routinely get together to create waterproof sleeping mats out of recycled plastic shopping bags. The ...

WAUSAU − More than 3,500 plastic shopping bags have been repurposed into sleeping mats for Wausau residents experiencing homelessness, according to a community announcement. The call for donations was ...

ABILENE, Texas — A group of women in Abilene is donating their time and their hands, crocheting mats for our homeless neighbors. 700 grocery bags makes one 3x6 foot crocheted mat, created using ...

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 said ...

RALEIGH (WTVD) — Crocheting is all the rage. Grandmothers and college students – and everybody in between – are crocheting these days. But have you ever seen someone crochet a plastic bag into a mat?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every Monday morning at a Mesa RV park, a group of seniors gathers with crochet hooks in hand, turning discarded plastic grocery ...

Do you have a cupboard full of plastic grocery bags you end up throwing away? One woman in the Coastal Bend is collecting them and turning them into mats for the homeless. Ann Kolasinski moved to the ...

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 hand ...

SPRINGFIELD — Fifty cases of plastic bags from the Big Y World Class Market on Cooley Street are being transformed by senior Betty Rennell into handcrafted sleeping mats for the homeless community.

GATESVILLE, Texas (KWTX) - The Gatesville Mad Matters have made and donated around 200 mats in the last year to organizations across Central Texas to be distributed to the homeless population to use ...