Making Mats For Homeless From Plastic Bags

Diy crochet plastic bags into sleeping mats for the homeless.

Making mats for homeless from plastic bags.

Try crocheting plastic bags into sleeping mats for those sleeping rough. Plastic bags are one of the worst offenders of the wasteful products that are polluting the earth s oceans and occupying the limited space of landfills. John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece. Meanwhile in norwalk iowa the mighty mat makers meet once a week at st.

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. After a month of crocheting interspersed with stopping to cut bags into thin strips. So when i considered making mats for the homeless out of plastic bags and saw that crocheting was the method most widely used to achieve that goal here in america that is where i started. I was only half way done.