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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When: 2-3:30 p.m. the third Tuesday of the month with the next get-together May 15. Where: Loveland’s Community Kitchen, 437 N. Garfield Ave. For More Info: Call ...

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 ...

A Tennessee church group has recycled tens of thousands discarded plastic bags into sleeping mats for the homeless -- and they don't plan on stopping there. The group of women, many of whom are ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. — Plastic bags, they enter ...

Because of the efforts a group of local volunteers partnering with St. Dominic's Hospital, plastic grocery, shopping and dry cleaning bags are being given a new life, repurposed into weatherproof ...

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DRUMS – Regina R. Drasher spends hours each day turning plastic shopping bags into sleeping mats for the area’s homeless. “A lot of people don’t realize that we have homeless people living in our area ...