With Newfoundland and Labrador's plastic bag ban coming into effect this July, people are trying to find different ways to reuse their bags and keep them out of landfills. "I'm sure we [all] have ...

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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — A group of volunteers is using plastic grocery bags to help homeless youth. They are turning them into mats by creating “plarn,” or plastic yarn. The mats are being made ...

Sophan Buffa is always ready for a plarn party. It’s BYOB — Bring your own bags. Collect plastic bags, get your friends together, cut the bags into strips and roll them up like a ball of yarn. Once ...

The ladies create and use "plarn," or plastic yarn, to make the mats. — -- A small group of mostly elderly women in Tennessee have transformed more than 10,000 discarded plastic bags into ...

It is called -- plarn. Plastic yarn! Since 2018, the women of the Old Town Fenton DAR chapter have been creating sleeping mats out of plarn for those in need. “We decided we really like helping the ...

It started with a plastic bag and a need for a warm blanket. Now it’s a movement that’s making hundreds of lives better. When retired educator Julie Conlon crocheted her first sleeping mat out of ...

SALINAS, Calif. -- Thursday afternoons, a group of women gather at the Steinbeck Library gather to weave mats for homeless people to sleep on. They weave, not with cotton or wool, but with plastic ...