RICHMOND, Va. — At Hathaway Tower in Richmond, Peggy Westlake and friends Brenda and Frances have been meeting every week for two and a half years to weave plastic bags into mats for the homeless. The ...

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 ...

(LEX 18)– Women in Boyd County are putting plastic shopping bags to good use by weaving them into beautiful mats to help others. The Boyd County Homemakers are turning trash into treasure, spending ...

NEW ALBANY, In. (WDRB) -- Plastic bags are getting a new life as mats for the homeless! WDRB's Keith Kaiser lends a helping hand at Our Lady of Perpetual Help in New Albany (OLPH). About a year ago, ...

This fabric, which is one of the winners of the inaugural Ro Plastic Prize announced at Milan Design Week, is made by weaving plastic bags on a traditional Egyptian handloom. The finished product, ...

OREM, Utah - A group of Utah Valley University students is using a simple household item usually destined for the landfill, to help out refugee families across the world instead. Every Tuesday evening ...

A Wichita State University senior is about reducing, reusing and recycling for a final project this semester that's part art and utility. WSU Senior and Plarn Project ICT leader Samantha Cosgrove said ...

Order of the Eastern Star Iris Chapter member Maggie Brown of Danville holds up a nearly completed sleeping mat made of plastic shopping bags as Donna Starkey of Westville examines the unique pattern ...