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 ...

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 ...

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Join Homewood Recycling's Hop Reuse Hub team for a fun, two-part Lunch & Learn series this spring. We will teach you how to use plastic bags to make a reusable produce bag! This is a two-part event.

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 ...

A thrifty TikToker is using “plarn” to crochet her trendy fashion pieces. Decode and demystify Gen Z's latest online slang terms with In The Know's new glossary. “First, just flatten out your bag,” Xu ...

Most people would consider the task of dealing with thousands of empty plastic grocery bags a burden, not a blessing. The Plarn People of Normandie Ridge welcome it. The group culls the bags that ...

Yarn crafts such as knitting and crochet have seen a huge surge in popularity in recent years. But did you know that you don't have to only use acrylic or wool yarn for your favourite crafts? Crafters ...

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 ...