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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Tennessee church group has recycled tens of thousands discarded plastic bags into sleeping mats for the homeless -- and they don't plan on stopping there. The group of women, many of whom are ...

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.

A Wichita State University senior is about reducing, reusing and recycling for a final project this semester that's part art and utility. WSU Senior and Plarn Project ICT leader Samantha Cosgrove said ...