Plastic shopping bags often end up in the trash or stuffed in a cupboard to use for another day. Others are returned to the grocery store to be recycled into something else such as new bags, outdoor ...

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 ...

What’s six feet long and two feet wide, warm in the summer and cool in the winter, and ideal for sleeping outside? Not expensive camping gear, but rather “Plarn” mats, which are cushy, body-size ...

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 ...