How To Make Plastic Mats Out Of Milk Bags

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.

How to make plastic mats out of milk bags.

Parents can teach about recycling in the house and how plastic bags take years to decompose. Gather the plastic bags. They had an overabundance o. A word of forewarning when putting out the call to action for collecting plastic bags be prepared for an avalanche of plastic bags.

John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece. For quite some time all across canada a community of volunteers schools churches and businesses have been collecting milk bags. Making milk bag mats. 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.

Northwest haiti christian mission canada has a mats 4 haiti program that distributes milk bag sleeping mats and totes for people in haiti. Instead of becoming landfill plastic bags can be used for fun craft projects. The bags are cut into strips tied together and then woven or crocheted. The mats are made by cleaning the milk bags and cutting them into strips before they are looped and fitted on a frame.

The milk bags used are the ones that hold the three smaller bags of milk. Meanwhile in norwalk iowa the mighty mat makers meet once a week at st. One easy project appropriate for ages six to adult is weaving a doormat from left over bags. It takes approximately 400 milk bags to make an adult sized mat.