Create change in your community by supporting Triton College’s Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) through Mats for ...

LUFKIN, Texas (KTRE) - A Lufkin group is making mats for the homeless population. The Mats That Matter group has too many bags and is turning them into mats, but they need more volunteers. They are ...

Most of us don’t give plastic shopping bags a second thought. These ladies, however, take those plastic bags and transform ...

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, ...

CHICAGO -- This week's 4-Star-Chicagoan, New Life for Old Bags (NLOB), is an organization that uses plastic bags to create sleeping mats for the homeless. Board President Chrissy Batorski stopped by ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Nearly 30 CBS 6 viewers have volunteered to help Peggy Westlake's mission to create sleeping mats for unhoused people using recycled plastic bags. The response comes after Westlake was ...

Plastic bags and cluttered kitchen closets sometimes go together like cheese and crackers, but unlike the second pairing, the first isn’t always a good thing. If, at the end of the month, you find ...

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 ...

Faulkner County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Rusty Page, who serves as the director of the Juvenile Housing Unit, has been working with the juveniles to craft crocheted plastic mats to help keep the homeless ...

Kaplan, La. - After grocery shopping, most people would throw their plastic bags away. However, Rita Keating from Kaplan uses them for a greater purpose. “When I started out, it was just my husband ...

ULLIN, Ill. (WSIL) -- The Shawnee Community College's Cosmetology Club is asking the public for bags so they can help out hurricane victims. The school organization is urging the public to donate bags ...