LUFKIN, Texas (KTRE) - A Lufkin group is making mats for the homeless population. The Mats That Matter group has too many bags and is turning them into mats, but they need more volunteers. They are ...

Most of us don’t give plastic shopping bags a second thought. These ladies, however, take those plastic bags and transform ...

Karla Smilie Groves and eight of her friends meet every Tuesday and Thursday to weave mats out of grocery bags for their neighbors who do not have homes. “I have always had a heart for the homeless, ...

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 ...

Create change in your community by supporting Triton College’s Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) through Mats for ...

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 ...

Because of the efforts a group of local volunteers partnering with St. Dominic's Hospital, plastic grocery, shopping and dry cleaning bags are being given a new life, repurposed into weatherproof ...

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.

Faulkner County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Rusty Page, who serves as the director of the Juvenile Housing Unit, has been working with the juveniles to craft crocheted plastic mats to help keep the homeless ...

This year, a group of students is making mats for the homeless in Gary. They intend to make at least 100 mats initially and give them to police to pass out in the winter for the homeless to use as a ...