Saving Plastic Bottle Caps For Benches

And they started an amazing program called abc promise partnership which allows kids to recycle plastic bottle caps and lids into benches for their communities.

Saving plastic bottle caps for benches. They are out of evansville indiana. The troops will be responsible to assist in collecting washing and weighing the bottle caps lids. Every cap or lid that goes into a bench does not go into the landfill we will be working with green tree plastics. Our plan is to collect bottle caps and lids to recycle into a bench or benches to be placed at earthconnection.

It s an exciting teaching tool wherein plastic bottle caps are transformed into benches that will last a lifetime. Our proprietary cast method of flow molding creates an interior box beam structure that prevents sagging or twisting of boards. Recycled plastic factory of englewood ca paid the school 20 cents a pound for their 5 plus tons of plastic bottle caps and the factory melted down the bottle caps to manufacture plastic lumber that has been used to retrofit 30 of the school s outdoor benches. It takes 400 pounds of plastic caps to make one bench.