HUMMELS WHARF — The average American household uses approximately 900 plastic grocery bags each year. In honor of Earth Day on Wednesday, Giant Food Stores and Martin’s Food Markets are encouraging ...

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 ...

If you're like most people, you probably have a stash of plastic bags somewhere in your house. Occoquan, Virginia, has a creative plan for those leftover grocery bags, dry cleaning bags and bread bags ...

IMLAY CITY, Michigan (WWJ) -- The VFW is honoring an Imlay City veteran for his commitment to the community. Harry Earehart collected 1,000 pounds of plastic in just six months to make a bench for ...

Thanks to a bunch of shrink wrap and grocery bags, Export has a new bench near Giuseppe’s Pizzeria on Kennedy Avenue. It was created through the use of local recycled plastics, part of Rotary ...

Whiting schools and city government employees have won top honors in a recent contest that will recycle tons of plastic bottle caps into 25 park benches. The Lake County Solid Waste Management ...

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 ...

CARROLLTON — Volunteers were busy last week in the basement of the Carrollton Public Library, counting plastic bottle caps — thousands of them — that will eventually be turned into park benches. The ...

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 ...

Today I present to you a true story, and an amazing opportunity to participate in a meaningful and relatively easy program to earn a bench for your nonprofit. In November of 2023, a partnership ...

(CBS DETROIT) — The VFW is honoring an Imlay City veteran for his commitment to the community. Harry Earehart collected 1,000 pounds of plastic in just six months to make a bench for Veterans Park, ...