We all have one: a plastic bag filled with more plastic bags that we keep shoved under a sink somewhere in the hopes that, eventually, we’ll need to use them.
If your pile of old grocery bags is overflowing, like my own, consider dropping it off to Krysti Wright at Stitching Hearts Worldwide, who Lee Benson says performs “a kind of magical alchemy” with the plastic.
“Through a weaving process that requires about two hours per mat, 350 plastic grocery bags, on average, are cut into strips that are then intertwined together to produce a ground covering that is reckoned to warm up a cold sleeping spot by as much as 40 degrees,” Lee writes.
“Stitching Hearts quietly produces and distributes thousands of these mats every year, to locations both far away, like Bangladesh and Guatemala, and right next door, like the Provo Food Bank. ‘They tell us every time they put them out, they’re gone,’ says Krysti.”
Read more about how Stitching Hearts Worldwide is helping the disadvantaged and the dispossessed.
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