There's another way to make a bath mat out of plastic bags using a combination of braiding and weaving — no tools required outside of some scissors and your very own pair of dexterous hands.

A Tennessee church group has recycled tens of thousands discarded plastic bags into sleeping mats for the homeless -- and they don't plan on stopping there. The group of women, many of whom are ...

From gardening kneelers to woven rugs to bouquets of flowers that will never wilt, we've got you covered for clever ways to ...

Plastic bag bans may not be the best way to keep plastics out of the ocean, argues Todd Myers. Jay Karr Island Packet We don’t want plastic in the ocean. Most plastic degrades slowly ...

A year has passed since Japan introduced mandatory charges to customers for each single-use plastic bag taken from retail stores. The ratio of shoppers who decline plastic bags at stores has risen ...

To turn your plastic bags into "plarn," or plastic ... The tops are then sewn together using a similar method to crochet weaving. This Bellani bag takes about eight hours to make and uses exactly ...

On July 1, Japan joined a growing list of countries to implement a mandatory plastic bag surcharge. It's part of a national effort to reduce plastic waste in a country that the U.N. says has the ...

A dolphin in North Carolina died after ingesting a plastic bag. A necropsy found no food in its stomach, only a knotted plastic bag. Experts urge people to reduce plastic use to protect marine life.