Plastic Bags For Homeless Mats

Every child was busy helping prepare hundreds of bags.

Plastic bags for homeless mats.

Try crocheting plastic bags into sleeping mats for those sleeping rough. See more ideas about plastic bag crochet recycled plastic bags plastic bag crafts. By collecting plastic bags and crocheting them in to sleeping mats you can give a homeless veteran a soft place to lay his or her head and help keep plastic bags out of oceans and landfills. Home crafts diy turning plastic bags into sleep mats for homeless turning plastic bags into sleep mats for homeless.

So far they have spent at least 100 hours on the project producing 18 mats that have been handed out to the homeless and there are many more to come. All bags are used bags i have cut and stored flat. These sleeping mats make great supplies for the homeless population allowing them to sleep comfortably wherever they need to. After a month of crocheting interspersed with stopping to cut bags into thin strips.

Diy crochet plastic bags into sleeping mats for the homeless. John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece. Meanwhile in norwalk iowa the mighty mat makers meet once a week at st. Stop with the whining about using new bags already.

So when i considered making mats for the homeless out of plastic bags and saw that crocheting was the method most widely used to achieve that goal here in america that is where i started. Plastic bags are one of the worst offenders of the wasteful products that are polluting the earth s oceans and occupying the limited space of landfills. Affiliate links may be used in this post. It also makes a great addition to any camping trip.

As an amazon associate i earn from qualifying purchases. Nanaimo harbour city seniors in namaimo british columbia canada have taken plastic shopping bags and turned them into sleeping mats by crocheting them together. Plarn is plastic yarn strips which are then crocheted into useful products including the mats pillows and bags.