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 ...

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.