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You may live in an area that's outlawed single-use plastic shopping bags. This is a great step toward reducing waste, litter, and pollution, but plastic bags aren't going away any time soon. They're ...

Register here to join Homewood Recycling's Hop Reuse Hub team at noon on Friday, April 16, for the second part of our spring Lunch & Learn series. We will teach you how to use plastic bags to make a ...

With Newfoundland and Labrador's plastic bag ban coming into effect this July, people are trying to find different ways to reuse their bags and keep them out of landfills. "I'm sure we [all] have ...

PLYMOUTH – If you want to keep plastic out of landfills and help the homeless, take up crocheting. A group of women who meet at Magdalen Dowden’s Plymouth home every Thursday night use plarn – plastic ...

For their effort to succeed, they need to collect thousands of non-biodegradable, used plastic shopping bags — such as those from many grocery and department stores. On Tuesday night in Poway a couple ...

Sophan Buffa is always ready for a plarn party. It’s BYOB — Bring your own bags. Collect plastic bags, get your friends together, cut the bags into strips and roll them up like a ball of yarn. Once ...

It's called plarn, a word that's a mash up of plastic and yarn. And it's made from those ubiquitous grocery bags that seem to proliferate in kitchen cabinets and drawers. On Thursday at the Jewish ...

Jessica McDonald, a textile artist from St. John's, recently started using plarn, a yarn made out of plastic bags, in her crafts. (Heather Barrett/CBC) With Newfoundland and Labrador's plastic bag ban ...