Imagine walking down your street or biking to school. You might see colourful plastic bags tangled in trees, floating in ...

The Mad Matters out of Gatesville use 600 grocery bags to make a single mat to be given to the homeless to lay on when the pavement is extremely hot or cold.

Plastic grocery bags. “We’ve been making mats for the homeless in the area, and we make them out of plastic grocery bags,” said volunteer Diane Smalley. “There’s a group of about 20 of us.

Chris Wacinski, the CTO of Ecological Materials, told Pueblo County commissioners at a work session on July 19 that flimsy single-use plastic is much harder to repurpose than sturdier plastic bottles.

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The organization Teens Give Back SATX is making used grocery bags into sleeping mats for San Antonio’s unsheltered residents.

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