Order of the Eastern Star Iris Chapter member Maggie Brown of Danville holds up a nearly completed sleeping mat made of plastic shopping bags as Donna Starkey of Westville examines the unique pattern ...

FISHERS, Ind. (WTHR) — Most of us have a pile of plastic bags at home, screaming to be re-used or recycled in some fashion. Kids in Fishers discovered not only an eco-friendly way to keep plastic bags ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — A group of volunteers is using plastic grocery bags to help homeless youth. They are turning them into mats by creating “plarn,” or plastic yarn. The mats are being made ...

SALINAS, Calif. -- Thursday afternoons, a group of women gather at the Steinbeck Library gather to weave mats for homeless people to sleep on. They weave, not with cotton or wool, but with plastic ...

When the world seems crazy and mean, do the opposite and spread a little kindness. That’s what two sisters – one in Atlanta and the other in New Jersey – challenged each other to do following a ...

Solana Beach teen Delaney How is trying to change the world one plastic bag at a time, using them to make mats for homeless people to sleep on. Surrounded by a box full of various types of plastic ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Dorothy Jackson, owner of The Memory Tree and Yarn Branch in Monongahela, knits yarn made of plastic shopping bags, also known as plarn, into a mat that will be given to a homeless person to use as ...

If you have a hoard of plastic bags shoved inside a cupboard in your home, a Rothesay woman will gladly take them off your hands. Renee Outhouse is crocheting plastic sleeping mats for people who are ...