Plastic Milk Bag Mats

Like sleeping mats and blankets.
Plastic milk bag mats. It was a network of people turning milk storage bags into mats to be set to areas hit by natural disasters. They had an overabundance o. Here s an instructional video of how to make mattresses out of milk bags using a loom. They were weaving mats at a rate of more than 5 mats a day.
I first heard about it when i was talking with some women at a local coffee group. How to recycle plastic shopping bags into something useful. Making milk bag mats. Crafters from the nanaimo harbour city seniors are turning plastic grocery bags into sleeping mats for the homeless.
Volunteers can then begin weaving the mattresses giving new life to what s. The thing that really got me was the rate at which they were making the mats. Northwest haiti christian mission canada has a mats 4 haiti program that distributes milk bag sleeping mats and totes for people in haiti. Knitters and crocheters will use their experience to test the gauge which will determine the number of plarn stitches.
Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags knitting needles size 10 or higher or crochet needles o or p recommended scissors. The milk bag mats offer people without beds an invaluable durable and washable alternative to sleeping on the often cold and damp ground. The mats are made by cleaning the milk bags and cutting them into strips before they are looped and fitted on a frame. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags.
Homeless or refugees camping mats.