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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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