Grocery Bag Mats For Homeless

Rather than throwing them out you can reuse them by crocheting them into multi purpose mats known as plarn plastic yarn.

Grocery bag mats for homeless.

Nanaimo harbour city seniors in namaimo british columbia canada have taken plastic shopping bags and turned them into sleeping mats by crocheting them together. Meanwhile in norwalk iowa the mighty mat makers meet once a week at st. These sleeping mats make great supplies for the homeless population allowing them to sleep comfortably wherever they need to. Wonderful community service project to reuse plastic bags and craft the bags into sleeping mats for homeless and those in need.

Opting to use green canvas bags for your grocery shopping is an effective option but many people still have excess plastic bags lying about the place. I found 500 600 per mat with a regular size grocery bag less if bigger bags are used but i d count on a minimum of 500. 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.