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 ...

For their effort to succeed, they need to collect thousands of non-biodegradable, used plastic shopping bags — such as those from many grocery and department stores. On Tuesday night in Poway a couple ...

What’s six feet long and two feet wide, warm in the summer and cool in the winter, and ideal for sleeping outside? Not expensive camping gear, but rather “Plarn” mats, which are cushy, body-size ...

Sandy Watts never lets anything go to waste. She makes bedroom slippers from old jeans; purses from magazines; placemats from old Christmas cards and bracelets with matching earrings from plastic soda ...

Americans use 100 billion plastic bags every year. But the seniors at Tower One/Tower East are keeping them out of landfills by turning them into mats for the homeless. “It is one of the projects that ...

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Too often found flying around in the wind, piling up in the woods, students at College of the North Atlantic's Grand Falls-Windsor campus found a new life for plastic bags. "We were looking for a way ...

FISHERS, Ind. (WTHR) — Most of us have a pile of plastic bags at home, screaming to be re-used or recycled in some fashion. Kids in Fishers discovered not only an eco-friendly way to keep plastic bags ...

Antioch Baptist Church will hold its fall revival on Sept. 28-30 at 7:30 p.m. Evangelist Roberta G. Watkins of Deliverance Temple Ministries in Aliquippa will be the guest speaker. For details, call ...