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 ...

Plarn, or plastic yarn, is made by folding and cutting strips of plastic bags. The strips are then combined together to make a ball similar to yarn.

THREE RIVERS, Mich. NEWSCHANNEL 3 -- It's something you most likely throw away. However, we're finding out that plastic shopping bags can be given new life to help the homeless.Youve heard of ...

Jennifer Darce, an intermittent worker in MSU's Office of Student Leadership and Community Engagement, leads the "Popcorn, Plarn and Professionalism" event at the Maroon Volunteer Center. After a ...

GREENSBORO, NC — A collaboration in Greensboro is aiming to keep plastic bags out of landfills and help homeless people all at the same time. Operation Bed Roll is aimed at helping some of th… ...

Join Homewood Recycling's Hop Reuse Hub team for a fun, two-part Lunch & Learn series, where participants will learn to make disposable plastic bags into plarn, or plastic yarn, and then into a ...

Plarn, or Plastic Bag Yarn, was developed as a way to provide pillows, bed mats and other warm layers of comfortability for a person experiencing homelessness. Volunteers will be creating plarn links ...

Plarn is an upcycle process that starts as a plastic grocery shopping bag and ends-up as a practical material with imaginative uses.

Eileen Warn has found a passionate community project turning old shopping bags into mats.

The advantages the plarn mats provide to a homeless person are critical, she said. For example, the mats thicken the barrier separating the ground from a blanket or a sleeping bag with a person ...