CHICAGO -- This week's 4-Star-Chicagoan, New Life for Old Bags (NLOB), is an organization that uses plastic bags to create sleeping mats for the homeless. Board President Chrissy Batorski stopped by ...

A volunteer group of retirees is constructing and providing sleeping mats made out of recycled plastic bags for unhoused folks in Tucson, Arizona. According to News 4 Tucson, the "Mat Makers," as the ...

Since 2021, a group of volunteers from Good Shepherd Parish in Ubly has made more than 400 sleeping mats for people experiencing homelessness in Huron, Tuscola and Sanilac counties. Their primary ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Nearly 30 CBS 6 viewers have volunteered to help Peggy Westlake's mission to create sleeping mats for unhoused people using recycled plastic bags. The response comes after Westlake was ...

Plastic bags and cluttered kitchen closets sometimes go together like cheese and crackers, but unlike the second pairing, the first isn’t always a good thing. If, at the end of the month, you find ...

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 ...

Creating sleeping mats for homeless veterans has become a mission for a group of Crown Point Christian Village residents and members of the First Christian Church of Crown Point. Made from clean ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) - A group of retirees in Tucson is transforming plastic shopping bags into sleeping mats for the homeless. These retirees, known as "The Mat Makers," are based at the Fred Archer ...

BATESVILLE, Ark. — For nearly two years, members of Batesville’s First Presbyterian Church have been getting together every Monday in the church’s fellowship hall to weave plastic grocery bags into ...

WYNOT, Neb. (KTIV) — Students at Wynot Public Schools celebrated on Friday after collecting more than 16,000 plastic bags during September’s “plastic bag challenge,” an initiative designed to help ...