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17064 Fort Street Riverview
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‘We are Plarners’ Group creates mats for the homeless while creating a bond with one another DAVE GORGON
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A group of volunteers that turns used plastic shopping bags into comfortable sleeping mats for the needy just celebrated its sixth anniversary of making a difference throughout the Region. Members of “We Are Plarners” have converted countless clean bags into “plastic yarn” – or “plarn” – and ultimately into thousands of mats that are used by the homeless, seniors and others who otherwise struggle to provide suitable warm bedding or furniture for their families. The group’s mission statement is “help others while helping the environment.” Founder Rita LaRosa Carioti of
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Southgate said each 3-by-6foot mat keeps 650 to 700 plastic bags out of landfills. “The benefit is extraordinary,” Carioti said. “If we can take plastic bags out of the landfill and make it purposeful, it’s win-win.” Carioti, who has been married 38 years and is the mother of three, said she grew up in a “charitable family” in Wyandotte. After leaving a job at a Taylor school, she started crocheting mats at her home and then considered how “much faster and better” it would be of there was a group of volunteers working together. Group meetings started at Christ the Good SEE PLARNERS, Page 3
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