Sometimes the simplest gifts are the best, and there’s not much more simple — but also necessary — than a place to lay down. That’s what brought students from St. Thomas of Villanova School in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

When Gail Potter first heard a couple of years ago that you could repurpose plastic grocery bags into sleeping mats for the homeless, she was intrigued. She loved the idea of helping people down on ...

NEW BERN, N.C. (WTVD) -- In North Carolina, some college students are taking action to help homeless individuals and improve the environment. They are turning plastic bags into durable sleeping mats.

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 ...

Peggy Westlake and her friends transform hundreds of plastic bags into sleeping mats for the homeless, combining environmental consciousness with community service. What is ‘ghost tapping?’: New ...

DECATUR — Adults remember making pot holders on plastic looms with fabric loops. Kids at SMASH Jr. Camp had a better idea. Thanks to visits from PawPrint Ministries and Hudson's Halfway Home, the ...

LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- While public officials espouse the need for people to stay home during the COVID-19 outbreak, the pandemic has posed great risk to homeless populations across the U.S. who may not ...