For their effort to succeed, they need to collect thousands of non-biodegradable, used plastic shopping bags — such as those from many grocery and department stores. On Tuesday night in Poway a couple ...

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Dorothy Jackson, owner of The Memory Tree and Yarn Branch in Monongahela, knits yarn made of plastic shopping bags, also known as plarn, into a mat that will be given to a homeless person to use as ...

COAL VALLEY — A group of women known as "The Bag Ladies" at Trinity Lutheran Church in Coal Valley are weaving plastic bags into a ministry for the homeless. "Care Share Fellowship" members at the ...

Thursday afternoons, a group of women gather at the Steinbeck Library gather to weave mats for the homeless to sleep on. They weave, not with cotton or wool, but with plastic bags cut into strips.

Sophan Buffa is always ready for a plarn party. The Windsor public school teacher who is on maternity leave is planning a plarn party in Walkerville Dec. 16 and hopes to get enough plastic yarn to ...

Jessica McDonald, a textile artist from St. John's, recently started using plarn, a yarn made out of plastic bags, in her crafts. (Heather Barrett/CBC) With Newfoundland and Labrador's plastic bag ban ...