CHICAGO -- This week's 4-Star-Chicagoan, New Life for Old Bags (NLOB), is an organization that uses plastic bags to create sleeping mats for the homeless. Board President Chrissy Batorski stopped by ...

A group of volunteers has found a practical way to help the environment and the homeless in our area. The Duvall Bag Ladies take old grocery and other plastic bags and crochet them into sleeping mats.

WYNOT, Neb. (KTIV) — Students at Wynot Public Schools celebrated on Friday after collecting more than 16,000 plastic bags during September’s “plastic bag challenge,” an initiative designed to help ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) - A group of retirees in Tucson is transforming plastic shopping bags into sleeping mats for the homeless. These retirees, known as "The Mat Makers," are based at the Fred Archer ...

BRIDGEPORT, W.Va (WDTV) - Most of us don’t give plastic shopping bags a second thought. These ladies, however, take those plastic bags and transform them into a way to help the area’s homeless ...