Making Plastic Mats For The Homeless

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Making plastic mats for the homeless.

By collecting plastic bags and crocheting them in to sleeping mats you can give a homeless veteran a soft place to lay his or her head and help keep plastic bags out of oceans and landfills. These sleeping mats make great supplies for the homeless population allowing them to sleep comfortably wherever they need to. Flatten the plastic bag to best you can and straighten any of the bags creases. John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece.

How to make plarn. Nanaimo harbour city seniors in namaimo british columbia canada have taken plastic shopping bags and turned them into sleeping mats by crocheting them together. Plastic yarn can be used to crochet shopping bags very easily. It also makes a great addition to any camping trip.

The basic instructions are above and can be modified to the desired size of bag. 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. Crafters from the nanaimo harbour city seniors are turning plastic grocery bags into sleeping mats for the. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags.

Make plastic sleeping mats for homeless veterans you can help homeless veterans and benefit the environment at the same time. 500 700 plastic shopping bags for a person sized mat but can vary depending on what you re using the mat for 10mm or larger crochet hook.