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 group of women are on a mission to comfort the homeless, transforming the most basic material, plastic bags, into something helpful and beautiful. They're folding, cutting and weaving mats by hand ...

A group of volunteers has found a practical way to help the environment and the homeless in our area. The Duvall Bag Ladies take old grocery and other plastic bags and crochet them into sleeping mats.

Karla Smilie Groves and eight of her friends meet every Tuesday and Thursday to weave mats out of grocery bags for their neighbors who do not have homes. “I have always had a heart for the homeless, ...

FROM DISCARDED PLASTIC BAGS TO SOMETHING THAT BRINGS COMFORT AND HOPE. A LOCAL CHURCH IS TURNING EVERYDAY TRASH INTO A TANGIBLE ACT OF KINDNESS. JOYCE OGIRRI SHOWS US THE CREATIVE WAY VOLUNTEERS ARE ...

JACKSON COUNTY, Miss. (WLOX) - Laura Shephard of Jackson County wants to lend a helping hand to those in need by creating sleeping mats for homeless people. Shephard says about 600 plastic bags are ...

SAN ANTONIO – An act of kindness shaped by a simple grocery bag. A group of teenagers have a new purpose for the plastic bags so many of us bring home from the store. The organization Teens Give Back ...

Turning discarded plastic bags into something that brings comfort and hope, a new ministry at Trinity United Methodist Church is transforming everyday trash into a lifeline for people facing ...