Mount View Care Center residents turned 3,500 plastic bags into sleeping mats for homeless individuals in Wausau, showing ...

A group of volunteers has found a practical way to help the environment and the homeless in our area. The Duvall Bag Ladies take old grocery and other plastic bags and crochet them into sleeping mats.

CAMBRIDGE — When someone is homeless, it can be hard to carry around a heavy sleeping bag. Sleeping gear might still be affected by dew or rain on the ground, according to Beth Crouch from the ...

WYNOT, Neb. (KTIV) — Students at Wynot Public Schools celebrated on Friday after collecting more than 16,000 plastic bags during September’s “plastic bag challenge,” an initiative designed to help ...

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 ...

CHICAGO -- This week's 4-Star-Chicagoan, New Life for Old Bags (NLOB), is an organization that uses plastic bags to create sleeping mats for the homeless. Board President Chrissy Batorski stopped by ...

Plastic bags and cluttered kitchen closets sometimes go together like cheese and crackers, but unlike the second pairing, the first isn’t always a good thing. If, at the end of the month, you find ...

NEW BERN, N.C. (WTVD) -- In North Carolina, some college students are taking action to help homeless individuals and improve the environment. They are turning plastic bags into durable sleeping mats.

Since 2021, a group of volunteers from Good Shepherd Parish in Ubly has made more than 400 sleeping mats for people experiencing homelessness in Huron, Tuscola and Sanilac counties. Their primary ...