Plastic Bags Made Into Sleeping Mats
The mats are made of plarn or plastic yarn crafted out of bags that are sliced into pieces and looped into a long chain.
Plastic bags made into sleeping mats. Crafters from the nanaimo harbour city seniors are turning plastic grocery bags into sleeping mats for the homeless. According to the volunteer organization orphan grain train which also makes plastic mats and. At the time it was revolutionary. This is a demo video showing you how to take plastic shopping bags and converting them into sleeping mats for the less fortunate.
Crocheting is something that could be done easily at home watching tv. It s not something that you have to devote a long time to you can do a little bit a few hours couple times a semester explained aleatha leader a regular volunteer for bags to beds. 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. String the loom by wrapping the length of loops between all the pegs on the long side.
Try crocheting plastic bags into sleeping mats for those sleeping rough. From 2017 the group has turned almost 100 plastic grocery bags into mats for the homeless in salt lake city. Hook the loop of the beginning chain over the first peg on the longest side. This isn t new information yet australians still dispose of approximately four billion recyclable plastic bags annually.
How already has boxes of bags some of which have been made into spools ready to be made into mats. Loop plastic bags together until you have a chain or length of loops approximately 56 bags long. On wednesday the group met at lakeshore presbyterian church in. It takes about 500 bags to make a two and a half feet by six foot mat.
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