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 ...

Pam Socie teaches ciLiving host, Jaclyn Friedlander how to make sleeping mats using plastic bags. In this video, we show you how to turn everyday plastic bags into durable sleeping mats that can be ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Nearly 30 CBS 6 viewers have volunteered to help Peggy Westlake's mission to create sleeping mats for unhoused people using recycled plastic bags. The response comes after Westlake was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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