(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 ...

Plastic shopping bags often end up in the trash or stuffed in a cupboard to use for another day. Others are returned to the grocery store to be recycled into something else such as new bags, outdoor ...

Because of the efforts a group of local volunteers partnering with St. Dominic's Hospital, plastic grocery, shopping and dry cleaning bags are being given a new life, repurposed into weatherproof ...

A Wichita State University senior is about reducing, reusing and recycling for a final project this semester that's part art and utility. WSU Senior and Plarn Project ICT leader Samantha Cosgrove said ...

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 ...

A Tennessee church group has recycled tens of thousands discarded plastic bags into sleeping mats for the homeless -- and they don't plan on stopping there. The group of women, many of whom are ...

Yarn crafts such as knitting and crochet have seen a huge surge in popularity in recent years. But did you know that you don't have to only use acrylic or wool yarn for your favourite crafts? Crafters ...

After they're used to carry home things like milk and eggs, many plastic grocery bags never get used again. They wind up stuffed in kitchen cabinets, recycled, or worse, thrown in the trash and sent ...