Making Mats for the Homeless 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 218 ...

SEE: Women inspired to make plastic bags into mats for the homeless (NCD) Many of us have that bag (or bags) filled with other bags that seem to multiply after trips to the grocery store.

A group of retirees in Tucson is transforming plastic shopping bags into sleeping mats for the homeless. These retirees, ...

At Académie Lafayette, 6th-graders are recycling hundreds of plastic bags to make mats for the homeless. “Instead of going to the landfill, we can recycle and make them into mats for homeless ...

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 ...

HOLT, MICH. (WLNS) — A woman and her mother are on a mission to collect hundreds of plastic grocery bags to transform them into something useful for people facing homelessness. The idea was c… ...

A group of volunteers are putting discarded plastic bags to use, to make sure the homeless have a warm, comfortable sleeping surface.

(LEX 18)– Women in Boyd County are putting plastic shopping bags to good use by weaving them into beautiful mats to help others.

MOUNT ZION – It took some time for Pat Cirks to get hooked on making mats for the homeless out of plastic shopping bags.

RURAL HALL - Marie Horn is proud to be a Knitwit. She’s not silly or scatterbrained. Horn is the dedicated organizer of a group of women who knit sleeping mats from plastic bags for the homeless ...

But one Michigan woman is taking the ever-growing pile of shopping bags and making something useful out of them: mats to provide insulation for homeless people.

It takes approximately 700 plastic bags to make a sleeping mat, pillow and carrying strap. The mats are delivered to homeless people in Tyler by a ministry called Jesus Closet.