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 ...

How to make a mat using plastic bags 13 ON YOUR SIDE viewer Ginny Beld teaches us how to make mats using old, plastic grocery store bags.

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 ...

BRIDGEPORT, W.Va (WDTV) - Most of us don’t give plastic shopping bags a second thought. These ladies, however, take those plastic bags and transform them into a way to help the area’s homeless ...

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 ...

Tracy Hilbert was so inspired after making sleeping mats out of plastic shopping bags at an event in Brandon that she decided to organize an event in Marion. It was held at Echo Hill Presbyterian ...

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 ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) - A group of retirees in Tucson is transforming plastic shopping bags into sleeping mats for the homeless. These retirees, known as "The Mat Makers," are based at the Fred Archer ...

13 ON YOUR SIDE viewer Ginny Beld teaches us how to make mats using old, plastic grocery store bags.