Sophan Buffa is always ready for a plarn party. The Windsor public school teacher who is on maternity leave is planning a plarn party in Walkerville Dec. 16 and hopes to get enough plastic yarn to ...

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 ...

It started with a plastic bag and a need for a warm blanket. Now it’s a movement that’s making hundreds of lives better. When retired educator Julie Conlon crocheted her first sleeping mat out of ...

Too often found flying around in the wind, piling up in the woods, students at College of the North Atlantic's Grand Falls-Windsor campus found a new life for plastic bags. "We were looking for a way ...

The Plarn Matters project in Savannah, Georgia was designed to solve two problems: using plastic waste to weave into mats and pillows for people who are homeless.

Hannah Gray remembers, as a 6-year-old Girl Scout, watching videos of sea turtles getting stuck in plastic. It was an image that has remained with her, even now as a first-year art teacher at The ...

COAL VALLEY — A group of women known as "The Bag Ladies" at Trinity Lutheran Church in Coal Valley are weaving plastic bags into a ministry for the homeless. "Care Share Fellowship" members at the ...

A “sustainable lifestyle” may sound like marketing buzzwords, but the idea of zero-waste living is increasingly important. No wonder low-waste holiday decor currently trending on social media. On ...