The city of Merriam is one of the latest local beneficiaries of a program in which plastic bags are recycled as free park benches. To make it happen, the city collected about 1,000 pounds of plastic ...

SNOHOMISH — Two green park benches made of recycled materials were installed in Pilchuck Julia Landing park last week. They were paid for with 1,000 pounds of recycled plastic. The benches are the ...

MIDDLEBURG HEIGHTS, Ohio -- Members of the Middleburg Heights Women’s Club collected 1,000 pounds of plastic film in five months through the NexTrex Recycling Challenge, earning a recycled bench that ...

Plastic is fed into a shredder before being ground down into smaller pieces and melted, on Feb. 22 at Plastic Recycling of Iowa Falls in Iowa Falls. The company uses recycled plastic material — ...

KENNY: A FORSYTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL STUDENT IS TURNING A SCHOOL PROJECT INTO A WAY TO GIVE BACK TO THE COMMUNITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT. M:KI COLETTE STEIN CAUGHT UP WITH THE STUDENT WHO IS TURNING ...

Thanks to the massive recycling efforts of Elise Forrester, her Chantilly Highlands neighbors and a DAR chapter, her community has a new bench. And by participating in the NexTrex Challenge, they kept ...