TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — A midtown Tucson neighborhood is getting a new park bench—made out of plastic that is normally trashed. The building blocks are plastic that would have been buried in a landfill ...

GODDARD, Kan. (KSNW) – One man’s trash is another man’s treasure or, in this case, plastic bags. The Lions Club in Goddard is collecting them and turning them into benches. The project started four ...

The Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, has just collected enough plastic to get a new bench. A bench, you ask? Yes. It’s a simple, innovative way to get plastic off the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Benches made of recycled flat plastic were recently placed at the Jackson Branch of Audubon Regional Library and the Feliciana Veterans Memorial Park thanks to the efforts begun by the local food bank ...