How To Make Homeless Mats Out Of Plastic Bags

It also makes a great addition to any camping trip.

How to make homeless mats out of plastic bags.

John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece. The mats are lightweight waterproof and help keep plastic bags out of oceans and landfills. How to make a bed roll from plarn plastic bag yarn. How these women crochet sleeping mats for homeless people out of plastic bags why we wrote this usually plastic bags are solely utilitarian and more and more they re maligned.

Homeless making plastic yarn plarn plastic bag recycle sleep mat sleep roll. Maria mendez young and other american legion auxiliary members in california are part of an initiative to create and provide these sleeping mats to homeless veterans in their community. These sleeping mats make great supplies for the homeless population allowing them to sleep comfortably wherever they need to. Meanwhile in norwalk iowa the mighty mat makers meet once a week at st.

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. The may 2016 auxiliary magazine featured a follow up to its cucumel s compassionate carpets article it published a few months prior. How to make a bed roll from plarn plastic bag yarn. This is a great way to involve your local church group knitting or crochet group youth group or scout organization with collecting and sorting the bags.

Rather than throwing them out you can reuse them by crocheting them into multi purpose mats known as plarn plastic yarn. Flatten out bags tucking in pleats 2 carefully stack 6 bags use clothes pins to keep them aligned until ready to cut. Gather the plastic bags. Each mat takes about 50 hours to make.

Nanaimo harbour city seniors in namaimo british columbia canada have taken plastic shopping bags and turned them into sleeping mats by crocheting them together. Each 6 foot by 2 foot mat is made from 600 to 700 recycled plastic grocery bags. 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.