Polk Group Makes Mats For Homeless

It takes about 50 hours.

Polk group makes mats for homeless.

The basic instructions are above and can be modified to the desired size of bag. Volunteer polk has come up with a new idea to keep the homeless warm this season and theyre asking for your helping hands. If you want to donate plastic bags or your time call volunteer polk at 863 534 5580. Wfla volunteer polk is looking for volunteers and plastic shopping bags to weave into mats for the homeless.

You are now ready to begin knitting or crocheting your plarn mat. Though they may live under a bridge when it rains the ground still gets wet. This particular group of about a dozen women has been meeting almost every week for more than a year converting. Volunteer polk said it takes about 700 plastic bags to complete.

The mighty mat makers has found a use for their crocheting skills. 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. The mat is made of plastic and is about a 1 2 inch thick. They are turning plastic bags into mats for the homeless for extra padding and a moisture barrier.

Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags. 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.

They re creating sleeping mats for homeless people out of recycled plastic bags. You need 700 bags to make just one mat. Volunteer polk has come up with a new idea to keep the homeless warm this season and they re asking for your helping hands. It is not a quick process.

It keeps them dry. They will be given to talbot house and other agencies that help the homeless. The first mats are probably going to be ready by december.