RICHMOND, Va. — At Hathaway Tower in Richmond, Peggy Westlake and friends Brenda and Frances have been meeting every week for two and a half years to weave plastic bags into mats for the homeless.
The trio has turned an environmental concern into a mission of compassion, transforming hundreds of plastic bags that would otherwise end up in landfills.
“I saw a lot of plastic bags in the trash, and it just bothered me, our use of plastic, and it just goes right in the trash and doesn’t disintegrate it just turns into microplastics, which we can’t even see anymore, and it ends up in our bodies our food, everywhere,” Peggy said…