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 ...

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 ...

Plarn, or Plastic Bag Yarn, was developed as a way to provide pillows, bed mats and other warm layers of comfortability for a person experiencing homelessness. Volunteers will be creating plarn links ...

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 ...

Jennifer Darce, an intermittent worker in MSU's Office of Student Leadership and Community Engagement, leads the "Popcorn, Plarn and Professionalism" event at the Maroon Volunteer Center. After a ...

“Plarn” is short for plastic yarn, and volunteers at the Brighton Senior Center save those plastic bags from polluting the environment while, at the same time, weaving sleeping mats for the 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 ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Volunteer Hyla Chasnoff and Tower One resident Bettye Morrison examine some plarn while Tower One ...