The Oakland Press

Trash to treasure: Crafty seniors fashion mats for homeless from plastic bags

What’s six feet long and two feet wide, warm in the summer and cool in the winter, and ideal for sleeping outside? Not expensive camping gear, but rather “Plarn” mats, which are cushy, body-size ...
Yahoo

Community members unite to make mats for the homeless population

Laura Barnard first got the idea to make mats for the homeless population out of plastic bags from a post she saw on Facebook. She then used YouTube to figure out how to make them. That was a couple ...
wnep

Making mats for the homeless in Scranton

SCRANTON, Pa. — An organization in Scranton is doing what it can to help the homeless by creating mats out of plastic bags. Volunteers with Outreach Center for Community Resources gathered at the ...
KSDK

Women using ‘plarn,’ plastic yarn, to create sleeping mats for those in crisis

It is called -- plarn. Plastic yarn! Since 2018, the women of the Old Town Fenton DAR chapter have been creating sleeping mats out of plarn for those in need. “We decided we really like helping the ...
HUB

Register for HRH's Lunch & Learn, Part 2: Turn Plarn Into a Reusable Bag

Register here to join Homewood Recycling's Hop Reuse Hub team at noon on Friday, April 16, for the second part of our spring Lunch & Learn series. We will teach you how to use plastic bags to make a ...