FRANCONIA — Residents at Peter Becker Community in Harleysville have been meeting weekly to create “Mercy Mats” – sleeping mats made of plastic bags for the homeless. The group asks staff and ...

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 ...

GATESVILLE, Texas (KWTX) - The Gatesville Mad Matters have made and donated around 200 mats in the last year to organizations across Central Texas to be distributed to the homeless population to use ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – For many of us, plastic bags are a way to get our groceries, and anything else we buy, home from the store. And yes, while we may reuse them later for other things, in the end, ...

Americans use 100 billion plastic bags every year. But the seniors at Tower One/Tower East are keeping them out of landfills by turning them into mats for the homeless. “It is one of the projects that ...

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 ...

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 ...