New Brunswick Plastic bags woven into sleeping mats for Fredericton's homeless Falls Brook Centre hoping to get 11 mats made to make up for lack of beds in the city ...

Peggy Westlake and her friends transform hundreds of plastic bags into sleeping mats for the homeless, combining ...

Known as plarn, or plastic yarn, the material is UV-resistant, washable, easy to carry and doesn’t retain moisture Jan. 30, 2023 1 min read ...

Marcks uses 1,000 plastic bags to weave one sleeping mat, and it takes about six to seven hours to complete. It takes Eddy about 28 hours to crochet each mat she produces.

Plastic bags, including garbage and shopping bags, caused less than 10 per cent. The report recommended that bag use be “discouraged” in coastal areas.

Chris and Ian Robins with their woven mat. The mats are approximately 1.8m x 0.75m made from 700 plastic bags. Picture: Liana Walker The mats are then donated to charities throughout Queensland.

Through a weaving process that requires about two hours per mat, 350 plastic grocery bags, on average, are cut into strips that are then intertwined together to produce a ground covering that is ...

Camaraderie goes hand in hand when St. Dominic's Hospital volunteers gather to weave sleeping mats out of plastic bags for the homeless while working in Terry on Monday, May 20, 2024.

The bags are donated and then given new life. It was a room full of chatter Tuesday afternoon with plastic bags rustling at Grace United Methodist Church in Sioux City.