Timely idea for environment protection, community service and fund-raiser
Students Recycle Plastic Bags to Make “Plarn” Blankets By Ma Fatima Garcia October 2nd, 2019 Contributor at Shareably
What if you can find a way to help save the environment by recycling plastic bags and be able to help the indigents as well? Wouldn’t that be awesome? Colorado Lakewood High School senior Shelby Tillema found a way to create a club that wouldn’t just help the environment but will also aid the homeless. The inspiration In an interview, Shelby Tillema explained that she saw a news report about “Bev’s Bag Brigade,” a group of women who are able to produce hundreds of “plarn” mats for the Volunteers of America since 2009.
they are able to reuse plastic grocery bags. The Plarn Club Plastic bags are harmful to our environment, an estimated 100 billion plastic bags are being used each year and each one can take more than 500 years to photo-degrade in a landfill according to the Center of Biological Diversity.
A plarn is basically plastic yarn, which these women crochet into warm mats that they donate to Volunteers of America.
We’ve seen how many marine animals mistakenly consume plastic bags thinking that they are food; we’ve also seen how these plastic bags contaminate our environment. Did you also know that an average family in the U.S uses more than 1,500 plastic bags a year?
Each year, they are able to produce hundreds of plarn sleeping mats and at the same time,
“You take recycled plastic grocery bags or just any plastic bags and you cut them into strips,
Lakewood PLARN Club on YouTube
and tie those strips together and that makes this thing called plarn, plastic bag yarn,” president Shelby Tillema shared to JPS-TV. Once the plarn has been created, some of the students will then crochet them into sleeping mats. These sleeping mats are actually comfortable, surprisingly soft, durable and water-resistant. What better way to spend the afternoon than to recycle plastic bags to help the environment, create something beautiful with it and donate to indigents who need them!
Or sell some to others as club fundraisers.
Recycled Plastic Bag Yarn Knitting Step by step on You-