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Here’s How This Student Turns Chip Bags into Sleeping Bags for the Homeless

The Chip Bag Project is slowly but surely chipping away at poverty. Here's how an empty bag can help someone sleep at night.

Detroit activist wants you to munch on potato chips to help the homeless Darlene A. White Detroit - Eradajere Oleita has an odd request: Eat potato chips to help keep the homeless warm during the winter months. After eating the chips, the environmental activist from Detroit wants people to donate emptied, foil-lined chip bags of all brands and sizes to the Chip Bag Project, which will be used to make sleeping bags for the homeless in the city.  “People are going to throw their chip bags in t...

Detroit group uses donated potato chip bags to make sleeping bags for the homeless ‘People in the community are willing to help,’ Allante Steele said Tags:  DETROIT – Do you like potato chips? A group is asking for your potato chip bag when you’ve finished it. Erada Jere Oleita and Allante Steele work with the Chip Bag Project. They’re collecting chip bags to turn them into products that can help the homeless. “We’re taking foil, like chip bags. So your potato chips, Doritos, Che...

Detroit Woman Aims To Help The Homeless Using Your Old Trash We had a joke in Florida that the only mountains around were the landfills. While it gave us a chuckle theres no doubt that this country has a trash problem. And the majority of people I know do their best with recycling but plenty of trash still ends up in the ocean, the streets, the landfills and so on. But, one woman in Detroit has found a way to transform certain trash into something that will help others. Eradajere Oleita, 25, is...