Since January, Made to Love Ministries and its volunteers have been making sleeping mats using only plastic grocery bags. Pamela Benson started making the mats at Christmastime.

The mats are 6-feet by 3-feet long and are made completely out of plastic bags. “I crochet the mats and it takes 500 to 700 bags to make one mat,” said Johnson.

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.

One man's trash is another man's treasure for one Luling man, who is re-purposing plastic bags and making them into sleeping mats for the homeless.

The mats are made from plastic grocery bags cut into strips and looped together to make balls of plastic yarn called plarn. The plarn is crocheted into 3-feet-by-6-feet mats.

You may think of plastic bags as handy vessels for getting things from the store to your house. You may think of them as an environmental scourge.