NEW BERN, N.C. (WTVD) -- In North Carolina, some college students are taking action to help homeless individuals and improve the environment. They are turning plastic bags into durable sleeping mats.

When two Texas cities prohibited stores from giving away plastic grocery bags for free ... at the University of California Riverside’s School of Business, said in a statement.

They quantified plastic bag sales by analyzing barcode scanner ... an associate professor at UCR’s School of Business. “But that’s not what happened in the data. People wound up buying ...