NEWHALL - Mae Kaestner says it amazes her how fast plastic bags accumulate. But instead of throwing the bags into the trash or recycling bin, Kaestner and her friends are working to transform them ...

KENTWOOD - Jackie Weersing spied the article in the American Legion's Auxiliary Magazine and thought she just might have a new project for the local post in Kentwood, which she was president of at the ...

BRAZIL, Ind. (WTWO) — Many might not see see them, but there are homeless people living in communities all across the Wabash Valley. A Clay County woman has made it her mission to help them. But she ...

Homewood Recycling celebrated America Recycles Day on Tuesday by transforming plastics bag into "plarn." A handful of faculty, staff, and students stopped by Johns Hopkins University's Shriver Hall to ...

A group of active seniors at the Vintage Apartments in North Spokane is turning plastic grocery bags into sleeping mats for the homeless. The bags are cut into loops, which are strung together to ...

You may think of plastic bags as handy vessels for getting things from the store to your house. You may think of them as an environmental scourge. For Pat Roby, they are a way to help the homeless.

FROM DISCARDED PLASTIC BAGS TO SOMETHING THAT BRINGS COMFORT AND HOPE. A LOCAL CHURCH IS TURNING EVERYDAY TRASH INTO A TANGIBLE ACT OF KINDNESS. JOYCE OGIRRI SHOWS US THE CREATIVE WAY VOLUNTEERS ARE ...

Ellen Valentine of Tyler cuts plastic bags into strips to be made into sleeping mat for the homeless during a mat making workshop held at Southern Oaks Baptist Church in Tyler on Wednesday Jan. 10, ...

Canadian milk bags are near-indestructible. Weaving milk bag mats is an indestructible idea. Until bagged milk disappears from Canadian stores.