Plastic bag mats

Free crochet pattern for sleeping mat s fr. recycled plastic bags. Excellent for sleeping outdoors, so make many for the homeless + a few for family camping

How to Turn Plastic Bags Into a Sleeping Mat: Do you have a pile of plastic bags in your home and don't know what to do with them? Plastic bags aren't accepted in our home recycling bins because they jam up machines at recycling plants and according to the Oceans Campaign Director for Greenpeac…

Want to make plastic bag rug, or maybe sleeping mats from plastic bags? This video gives you a grocery bag craft that will last for years! We show you how to weave a rug using plastic bags - it turned out FANTASTIC!

How to Make Plarn (Plastic Bag Yarn) The first time I learned about plarn (yarn created by cutting and tying together strips of plastic grocery bags), was in 2005 when British designer, Erika Knight was a guest on a TV... keep reading …

Turning Plastic Bags Into Sleep Mats For Homeless - The Savvy Age

The Plastic Bag Mat Project

We’ve put together a list of 25 practical and brilliant ways to make use of plastic shopping bags at home. You should definitely reuse them at least one more time before recycling them.

Community Action of Southern Kentucky's RSVP shows you How to make sleeping mats for the homeless from recycled plastic bags.

A group of active seniors at the Vintage Apartments in North Spokane is turning plastic grocery bags into sleeping mats for the homeless.

Make plastic yarn ("plarn") out of grocery bags & crochet them into mats for the homeless. (Project idea for next fall!).

How to Make a Plastic Bag Blanket: Hello! today I will be teaching you how to make a blanket entirely from plastic bags! follow these steps and you will be done in no time!

How to Make a Rug From Plastic Grocery Bags: In an effort to be "Green," I started saving my plastic grocery bags so that I could return them in large groups to be recycled. I had gathered quite a few bags, but kept forgetting to take them to be recycled. So I first started using them to make…

Sometimes, projects take longer than I expect. For example, this is a doormat I've been working on made out of plastic bags. The first night I worked on it, I got is about 1/3 of the way finished. The next time I touched it I hardly made a difference. It's still sitting on the floor of my bedroom, staring at me. Mocking me with it's little plastic bag voice "Feeling lazy Sheila? We'll wait." Joke is on you, mean doormat, I'm going to post about you anyway. This project is not at all…

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Sometimes, projects take longer than I expect. For example, this is a doormat I've been working on made out of plastic bags. The first ...

The folks at Life Without Plastic argue that these stretchy, rubbery bags are not as green as they seem.

Project III: Site Specific Installation “Everyday Objects” Using some sort of scavenged, easily amassed material. Use a repetitive, accumulative process to create an installation that create a spec…

Plastic shopping bags cut into 1 inch strips the single crochet. Search plarn project on YouTube for strip cutting instructions. This mat is versatile,

Sandy Watts never lets anything go to waste.She makes bedroom slippers from old jeans; purses from magazines; placemats from old Christmas cards and bracelets with matching earrings from plastic so…

​Try crocheting plastic bags into sleeping mats for those sleeping rough.