Plastic Bags For Homeless Mats

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.

Plastic bags for homeless mats.

Mar 23 2019 explore yrussell1 s board crochet plastic bags into mats for homeless on pinterest. Try crocheting plastic bags into sleeping mats for those sleeping rough. Affiliate links may be used in this post. Stop with the whining about using new bags already.

It also makes a great addition to any camping trip. So when i considered making mats for the homeless out of plastic bags and saw that crocheting was the method most widely used to achieve that goal here in america that is where i started. Diy crochet plastic bags into sleeping mats for the homeless. John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece.

Plarn is plastic yarn strips which are then crocheted into useful products including the mats pillows and bags. All bags are used bags i have cut and stored flat. After a month of crocheting interspersed with stopping to cut bags into thin strips. As an amazon associate i earn from qualifying purchases.

See more ideas about plastic bag crochet recycled plastic bags plastic bag crafts. Home crafts diy turning plastic bags into sleep mats for homeless turning plastic bags into sleep mats for homeless. 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. Every child was busy helping prepare hundreds of bags.

How to make a sleeping mat or rug using plastic. 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. Plastic bags are one of the worst offenders of the wasteful products that are polluting the earth s oceans and occupying the limited space of landfills.