Making Mats For The Homeless Out Of Grocery Bags

Crafters from the nanaimo harbour city seniors are turning plastic grocery bags into sleeping mats for the homeless.

Making mats for the homeless out of grocery bags.

Taking something that will forever sit in a landfill and repurposing it in such a creative way. City seniors are turning plastic grocery bags into. So far they have spent at least 100 hours on the project producing 18 mats that have been handed out to the homeless and there are many more to come. Some residents can only flatten out the bags and make them ready for cutting up.

After a month of crocheting interspersed with stopping to cut bags into thin strips. I read an article where people are making rectangular mats out of plastic bags as well to be used by the homeless for sleep mats during the wet season. Sleeping mats for the homeless are croqueted out of plastic bags during a mat making workshop held at southern oaks baptist church in tyler on wednesday jan. The basic instructions are above and can be modified to the desired size of bag.

Regardless of who uses it it s a great way to recycle. It also makes a great addition to any camping trip. You are now ready to begin knitting or crocheting your plarn mat. These sleeping mats make great supplies for the homeless population allowing them to sleep comfortably wherever they need to.

We asked for donations of plastic grocery bags and have some residents make the plarn plastic yarn. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags. So when i considered making mats for the homeless out of plastic bags and saw that crocheting was the method most widely used to achieve that goal here in america that is where i started. This is a demo video showing you how to take plastic shopping bags and converting them into sleeping mats for the less fortunate.

The bag ladies as they call themselves also specialize in making large tote bags out of the plastic. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags. Bethany thompson union city tenn. I am amazed by the creativity of people.

Bag ladies make mats for homeless out of plastic grocery bags. Meanwhile in norwalk iowa the mighty mat makers meet once a week at st. One local group of women is impacting lives across the country one. Plastic yarn can be used to crochet shopping bags very easily.