The organization Teens Give Back SATX is making used grocery bags into sleeping mats for San Antonio’s unsheltered residents.
Local NewsA group of teenagers have a new purpose for the plastic bags so many of us bring home from the store. “We take for granted having a bed to go home to at night after a long day of work or school and the comfort that brings us,” said Addie Roberts with Teens Give Back SATX.
The process of making a sleeping mat out of plastic bags requires patience, Roberts tells us. She says a single mat takes about 700-900 bags and 15-20 hours to make. The steps to get the job done are second nature for those working with Teens Give Back SATX, but they admit it did take some practice. The group says over the past year, they made about 50 mats with the help of neighborhood bag drives, but a recent partnership with H-E-B gave them 8,000 bags, allowing them to make 10 mats in the last month.
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