Retirees make incredible new creations using hundreds of old plastic bags: 'It's just something I feel I should do'

Retirees make incredible new creations using hundreds of old plastic bags: 'It's just something I feel I should do'

A volunteer group of retirees is constructing and providing sleeping mats made out of recycled plastic bags for unhoused folks in Tucson, Arizona. According to News 4 Tucson, the "Mat Makers," as the retirees call themselves, go through a process of flattening, cutting, and weaving old plastic bags to create a substance called "plarn" — a portmanteau of plastic and yarn. People can use this material to crochet items like sleeping mats. This kind…