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Northwest haiti christian mission canada has a mats 4 haiti program that distributes milk bag sleeping mats and totes for people in haiti.
Plastic mats made from milk bags. It is a relatively simple and cost effective process to recycle hdpe plastic for secondary use. Plastic milk bag sleeping mats for haiti. Plastic bag crafts plastic bag crochet crochet mat recycled plastic bags plastic grocery bags plastic milk grocery bag storage plastic bag storage craft storage. The mats are made by cleaning the milk bags and cutting them into strips before they are looped and fitted on a frame.
For quite some time all across canada a community of volunteers schools churches and businesses have been collecting milk bags. Hdpe plastic is the stiff plastic used to make milk jugs detergent and oil bottles toys and some plastic bags. They had an overabundance o. I live in barrie ontario canada.
The milk bags used are the ones that hold the three smaller bags of milk. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags knitting needles size 10 or higher or crochet needles o or p recommended scissors. The goal is a 3 by 6 size plastic yarn mat. Knitters and crocheters will use their experience to test the gauge which will determine the number of plarn stitches.
Volunteers can then begin weaving the mattresses giving new life to what s. Hdpe is the most commonly recycled plastic and is considered one of the safest forms of plastic. Haiti is in dire need of our help and our groups have been sending mats there since 2001. Making milk bag mats.
If you want the pattern for milk bag sleeping mats and the teddy bear you may e mail me at email protected. How to make sleeping mats for the homeless out of plastic bags. The bags are cut into strips tied together and then woven or crocheted. I first heard about it when i was talking with some women at a local coffee group.
The mats are 3 feet wide and 6 feet long which requires a lot of crocheting. It takes 500 to 700 plastic grocery bags to make 1 mat. It takes approximately 400 milk bags to make an adult sized mat.
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