According to News 4 Tucson, the "Mat Makers," as the retirees call themselves, go through a process of flattening, cutting, ...

(LEX 18)– Women in Boyd County are putting plastic shopping bags to good use by weaving them into beautiful mats to help others. The Boyd County Homemakers are turning trash into treasure, spending ...

COVINGTON, Ky. -- Marlene Meyers knows which stores you’ve visited based on the color of bags you’re carrying. The Fort Mitchell grandmother isn’t a shopaholic. She’s a crocheter, and those plastic ...

It started with some church ladies in Tennessee. Big Lake resident Liz Houck Kampa saw an online video of them using plastic bags to create mats for people experiencing homelessness. The crocheted ...

SNOHOMISH, Wash. -- Thursday was the weekly gathering among the ladies at Hope Foursquare Church in Snohomish, but this is no knitting circle. "Nope. This is a crocheting circle," said Sondra Hirsch.

After they're used to carry home things like milk and eggs, many plastic grocery bags never get used again. They wind up stuffed in kitchen cabinets, recycled, or worse, thrown in the trash and sent ...

OREM, Utah - A group of Utah Valley University students is using a simple household item usually destined for the landfill, to help out refugee families across the world instead. Every Tuesday evening ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Stanthorpe. Followed categories will be added to My News. The mats, made using a loom which weaves plastic bags, are designed to keep people dry from moisture on ...

WEAVING is slowly becoming a dying art as younger generations are reluctant to carry it forward. After all, clothes are readily available with fast fashion dominating today’s market. However, fast ...

Stacked in a neat pile in Rajiben Vankar’s house in Kutch’s Ahmednagar village is a bounty of plastic bags. On a clothes line are rows of washed bags drying under the sun. Rajiben is sitting on a ...

Rajiben's journey took a transformative turn when she was introduced to an NGO working for the welfare of weaver communities. This is where Rajiben learned how to upcycle plastic into different ...