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.

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 ...

NASSAU BAY, Texas -- Jan Reister was looking for a way to give back when a friend in Michigan introduced her to the concept of plastic bag mats. That's how the Plastic Bag Mat Ministry began at Gloria ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- During the dangerously cold days the homeless can go overlooked, but one Chicago woman has found a unique way to provide comfort for the oft-forgotten population. Shawne Duck lives in ...

NASSAU BAY, Texas -- Jan Reister was looking for a way to give back when a friend in Michigan introduced her to the concept of plastic bag mats. That's how the Plastic Bag Mat Ministry began at Gloria ...

SAN ANTONIO — Plastic grocery bags: What do you do with them? Recently, H-E-B donated 8,000 of its plastic bags to be made into sleeping mats. The organization 'Teens Give Back' made the mats for ...

SAN ANTONIO – An act of kindness shaped by a simple grocery bag. A group of teenagers have a new purpose for the plastic bags so many of us bring home from the store. The organization Teens Give Back ...

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - Americans throw away 100 billion bags annually, according to Earthday.Org. But with a technique of peg looming, volunteers at the SOWEGA Council on Aging are able to turn them ...

She was already up to her eyeballs in projects, but when Pat Harris learned to crochet plastic grocery bags into sleeping mats for the homeless, she couldn’t let such knowledge slip by unused. “I mean ...

Gil Schauer crochets with thick wooden needles and a dense globe of torn plastic bags, rolled like a ball of yarn. The 91-year-old spends about five hours weaving together discarded grocery bags into ...

Knitters have long known about the health benefits of their hobby: reduced depression, anxiety and blood pressure and an increased sense of wellbeing, to name a few. But now, more and more knitters ...