Reuse Plastic to Create Art

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - What is plarn? Plastic shopping bags reused as a yarn!

Amanda Barbee is the Director of Operations at Scrap Collective Creative Reuse Center. She joins us on Here @ Home to talk about how they reuse many materials to make crafts. In the 7 months they’ve been open, they have diverted over 9,000 pounds of usable items from the landfill.

In this visit, she shows us how to make plarn, and how she uses it in her workshops to make things like plarn cordage, reusable market baskets and a plarn plant holder. Watch our demonstration and be sure to join them on August 28th for their next workshop!

Find more online at ScrapCollective.org