Because of the efforts a group of local volunteers partnering with St. Dominic's Hospital, plastic grocery, shopping and dry cleaning bags are being given a new life, repurposed into weatherproof ...

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - A dedicated group in Sioux City is creating plastic mats out of used plastic bags from retail stores. The bags are donated and then given new life. It was a room full of chatter ...

It started with some church ladies in Tennessee. Big Lake resident Liz Houck Kampa saw an online video of them using plastic bags to create mats for people experiencing homelessness. The crocheted ...

MILTON -- Judy O'Brien over at Winter Valley senior housing in Milton has some tips for others who want to start a project similar to one they have at her housing community: using recycled plastic ...

Karla Smilie Groves and eight of her friends meet every Tuesday and Thursday to weave mats out of grocery bags for their neighbors who do not have homes. “I have always had a heart for the homeless, ...

BURLEY — Some Burley Junior High School students are infusing a little humanity into their day by weaving sleeping mats out of plastic grocery bags for the homeless. Two volunteers from The Magic ...

A Tennessee church group has recycled tens of thousands discarded plastic bags into sleeping mats for the homeless -- and they don't plan on stopping there. The group of women, many of whom are ...

“The Bag Ladies” from the Carroll Vista Retirement Community, left to right; Sharon Schaeffer, Westminster, Tina Saylor, Carroll Vista, and Sue Morris, Carroll Vista, demonstrated to Oklahoma Road ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - Some local elementary school students are using grocery sacks to make sleeping mats for a passion project which is helping area homeless people have a place to rest their heads.

Thirty years ago, Renee Hollinshed was a young mother of nine struggling to survive in Seattle. Advertisement Article continues below this ad She, her husband and their youngest daughter lived in ...

Over, under and over again: with thousands of plastic bags, determination, and a loom constructed out of PVC pipes, one group of children wove a way to keep the homeless from sleeping on the cold, ...

The "bag ladies" meet every single week at to work their arthritis-ridden fingers for an amazing cause. The women, who are mostly elderly members of Second Baptist Church in Union City, Tennessee, ...