Crafters from the nanaimo harbour city seniors are turning plastic grocery bags into sleeping mats for the homeless.
Making mats for the homeless out of grocery bags.
You are now ready to begin knitting or crocheting your plarn mat.
I am amazed by the creativity of people.
So when i considered making mats for the homeless out of plastic bags and saw that crocheting was the method most widely used to achieve that goal here in america that is where i started.
After a month of crocheting interspersed with stopping to cut bags into thin strips.
One local group of women is impacting lives across the country one.
This is a demo video showing you how to take plastic shopping bags and converting them into sleeping mats for the less fortunate.
I am going to try this.
Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags.
Some residents can only flatten out the bags and make them ready for cutting up.
City seniors are turning plastic grocery bags into.
Sleeping mats for the homeless are croqueted out of plastic bags during a mat making workshop held at southern oaks baptist church in tyler on wednesday jan.
Bethany thompson union city tenn.
I have started this project with some of my residents.
It also makes a great addition to any camping trip.
John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece.
Bag ladies make mats for homeless out of plastic grocery bags.
Taking something that will forever sit in a landfill and repurposing it in such a creative way.
Regardless of who uses it it s a great way to recycle.
The bag ladies as they call themselves also specialize in making large tote bags out of the plastic.
Meanwhile in norwalk iowa the mighty mat makers meet once a week at st.
We asked for donations of plastic grocery bags and have some residents make the plarn plastic yarn.
So far they have spent at least 100 hours on the project producing 18 mats that have been handed out to the homeless and there are many more to come.
Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags.
These sleeping mats make great supplies for the homeless population allowing them to sleep comfortably wherever they need to.