Polk Group Makes Mats For Homeless

If you want to donate plastic bags or your time call volunteer polk at 863 534 5580.

Polk group makes mats for homeless.

Wfla from bags to blankets a group called volunteer polk is taking plastic grocery bags that usually can t be recycled and upcycling them into mats for the homeless. Though they may live under a bridge when it rains the ground still gets wet. Crocheting plastic bag together to make a heavy water proof mat is. But one group in town is collecting the bags to help people who need a better way to sleep.

It keeps them dry. You need 700 bags to make just one mat. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags. The basic instructions are above and can be modified to the desired size of bag.

Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags. The mighty mat makers has found a use for their crocheting skills. Volunteer polk said it takes about 700 plastic bags to complete. Volunteer polk has come up with a new idea to keep the homeless warm this season and theyre asking for your helping hands.

It takes about 50 hours. They re creating sleeping mats for homeless people out of recycled plastic bags. This particular group of about a dozen women has been meeting almost every week for more than a year converting. Plastic yarn can be used to crochet shopping bags very easily.

They are turning plastic bags into mats for the homeless for extra padding and a moisture barrier. The first mats are probably going to be ready by december. The mats are used to keep the homeless off of the wet cold hot hard ground. It is not a quick process.

You are now ready to begin knitting or crocheting your plarn mat. Wfla volunteer polk is looking for volunteers and plastic shopping bags to weave into mats for the homeless. They will be given to talbot house and other agencies that help the homeless.