Every time she gets a plastic bag, Sayuri will feel a sense of annoyance: Oops, I seem to have destroyed the earth again! Before thinking about how to get rid of them, a family in Nebraska, USA Faith Westwood United Methodist, a church in Omaha, puts these plastic bags to good use.
Every winter, this church collects a large amount of unwanted plastic bags from nearby residents. The amount is like a mountain. Volunteers then took advantage of the airtight properties of plastic bags to connect them together and weave them into sleeping mats. It turns out that every winter, the church shelter is filled with homeless people, and the number far exceeds the number of bedding the church can prepare. They have to sleep on the cold floor in such a cold winter? Of course it is impossible - at this time These makeshift sleeping pads come in handy.
It takes about 1,000 plastic bags to complete one sleeping mat, but this quantity is no problem for them. In fact, so far, volunteers have completed hundreds of sleeping mats. A volunteer grandma named Marilynn Jones said in an interview that she can make two sleeping mats per week on average. Asked how she can be so good? She laughed and said that she has more than 70 years of experience in this craft!
Grandma Jones also said: "The church people told me that I have done 248, but I never count. I only know that I am doing something meaningful, and the sleeping mats will be given to those in need. That’s enough for people to use it.”
▼The sleeping pad made of plastic bags looks like this
▼The size is more than enough for an adult
For plastic bags that may take thousands of years to decompose, it should be something worthy of peoples attention that they can now be repurposed in another form in the world. Of course, if you think about it from another perspective, the reason why there are these plastic bags for sleeping mats is to think about how people produce such a large number of plastic bags - and the amount is obviously more than what people need. Therefore, in the end, we still need to call on everyone to "reduce plastic" together. ;As for the plastic bags that have been produced, we must make full use of them and cherish the earth we only have one!
