Gerry Stark stood in the center of the East Baton Rouge Library at Jones Creek on Feb. 4, surrounded by women and piles of plastic bags. Spread out at tables, these women, who make up just a small ...

Liz Hunsicker is retired from a nurturing medical profession and now enjoys recycling resources in a way that helps others. Hunsicker turns stashes of plastic grocery bags into waterproof mats for ...

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 ...

Laura Barnard first got the idea to make mats for the homeless population out of plastic bags from a post she saw on Facebook. She then used YouTube to figure out how to make them. That was a couple ...

A group of women are on a mission to comfort the homeless, transforming the most basic material, plastic bags, into something helpful and beautiful. They're folding, cutting and weaving mats by hand ...

WAUSAU − More than 3,500 plastic shopping bags have been repurposed into sleeping mats for Wausau residents experiencing homelessness, according to a community announcement. The call for donations was ...

Sister Kathy Roberg found a way to care for our planet while caring for some of its most vulnerable inhabitants. Since 2015, she’s made sleeping mats for the homeless from plastic bags. When the ...

TUCSON – People may not think much of those plastic shopping bags that they get at the grocery store. But a group of elderly woman in Tucson thought of a creative way to recycle them. They are using ...