Women incarcerated at ORW gather each week, using donated supplies to create items like grocery bag blankets, along with ...

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — As the temperature drops and holidays approach, non-profits are seeing an increase this year in people needing help. Briarlake Elementary students in DeKalb County are stepping up ...

RALEIGH (WTVD) -- Crocheting is all the rage. Grandmothers and college students - and everybody in between - are crocheting these days. But have you ever seen someone crochet a plastic bag into a mat?

CHICAGO (WLS) -- During the dangerously cold days the homeless can go overlooked, but one Chicago woman has found a unique way to provide comfort for the oft-forgotten population. Shawne Duck lives in ...

Put this under the "unexpected consequences" file. When the state of New York passed its plastic bag ban, which goes into effect March 1, volunteers who use bags to crochet sleeping mats for the ...

Sister Kathy Roberg found a way to care for our planet while caring for some of its most vulnerable inhabitants. Since 2015, she’s made sleeping mats for the homeless from plastic bags. When the ...

It's called plarn, a word that's a mash up of plastic and yarn. And it's made from those ubiquitous grocery bags that seem to proliferate in kitchen cabinets and drawers. On Thursday at the Jewish ...