Hannah Gray remembers, as a 6-year-old Girl Scout, watching videos of sea turtles getting stuck in plastic. It was an image that has remained with her, even now as a first-year art teacher at The ...
Sophan Buffa is always ready for a plarn party. It’s BYOB — Bring your own bags. Collect plastic bags, get your friends together, cut the bags into strips and roll them up like a ball of yarn. Once ...
Jessica McDonald, a textile artist from St. John's, recently started using plarn, a yarn made out of plastic bags, in her crafts. (Heather Barrett/CBC) With Newfoundland and Labrador's plastic bag ban ...
It started with a plastic bag and a need for a warm blanket. Now it’s a movement that’s making hundreds of lives better. When retired educator Julie Conlon crocheted her first sleeping mat out of ...
Too often found flying around in the wind, piling up in the woods, students at College of the North Atlantic's Grand Falls-Windsor campus found a new life for plastic bags. "We were looking for a way ...
Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Volunteer Hyla Chasnoff and Tower One resident Bettye Morrison examine some plarn while Tower One ...
Apr. 22—ALBANY — The idea that "one man's junk is another man's treasure" is being demonstrated each week at the SOWEGA Council on Aging, where a group of volunteers is turning plastic bags into ...
A “sustainable lifestyle” may sound like marketing buzzwords, but the idea of zero-waste living is increasingly important. No wonder low-waste holiday decor currently trending on social media. On ...
COAL VALLEY — A group of women known as "The Bag Ladies" at Trinity Lutheran Church in Coal Valley are weaving plastic bags into a ministry for the homeless. "Care Share Fellowship" members at the ...
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