RICHMOND, Va. — At Hathaway Tower in Richmond, Peggy Westlake and friends Brenda and Frances have been meeting every week for two and a half years to weave plastic bags into mats for the homeless. The ...

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - A dedicated group in Sioux City is creating plastic mats out of used plastic bags from retail stores. The bags are donated and then given new life. It was a room full of chatter ...

(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 ...

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 ...

K2K Trash Weaving Workshop participants working with recyclable materials at Seri Kota Public Housing in Kuala Lumpur. — Photos: SHEILA SRI PRIYA/The Star WEAVING is slowly becoming a dying art as ...

Order of the Eastern Star Iris Chapter member Maggie Brown of Danville holds up a nearly completed sleeping mat made of plastic shopping bags as Donna Starkey of Westville examines the unique pattern ...