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Rita Keating uses 700 grocery bags to make one mat. That process takes her 50 hours.

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Rita Keating shows off the mat that rolls up to easily carry.

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Rita Keating said she can complete two mats a month.

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Rita Keating cuts a stack of bags to make plarn, plastic yarn used to make the mats. Keating then ties the plarn (below).

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Grocery bags transformed into something comfortable

You will make at least a half dozen monthly trips to the grocery store. That means the accumulation of a lot ...

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