Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Because of the efforts a group of local volunteers partnering with St. Dominic's Hospital, plastic grocery, shopping and dry ...

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 ...

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 ...

MONTGOMERY, AL (WSFA) - To most of us they are just plastic bags. We use them for groceries or maybe trash bags at home. But for one Montgomery woman, these bags, when you have a whole bunch of them, ...

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.

Many of us have that bag (or bags) filled with other bags that seem to multiply after trips to the grocery store. But one Michigan woman is taking the ever-growing pile of shopping bags and making ...

(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 ...

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 ...