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Making benches out of plastic caps. Because of the generosity of our parishioners their families friends and co workers we were able to have enough caps for two benches. They are out of evansville indiana. Rae ann gore of sandoval illinois is in evansville to pick up benches for her dancing studio after delivering more than 3400 pounds of caps and lids. Build a stronger and recycle educated community for our children we will.
The caps can be from water bottles twist off caps for soda or milk coffee cans peanut butter lids or even large twist off detergent lids. Trade them in for a recycled bench or picnic table. This project has been an amazing skill building tasks for my. 800 pounds of plastic caps are boxed and ready to take to green tree plastics in evansville in.
It s an exciting teaching tool wherein plastic bottle caps are transformed into benches that will last a lifetime. Monday friday 8 00am to 3 00pm central time. It took a total of 55 boxes to hold the 800 pounds of caps. With the help of green tree plastics the bottle caps will be turned into a buddy bench for our school.
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. Impd is hoping to collect enough to make 7 benches. Appointments are central time zone. It takes 400 pounds of caps and lids to make a bench.
Students will be able to see what 400 pounds of bottle caps looks like and we can discuss how much space this would take up in a landfill. 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 will take roughly 350 400lbs of bottle caps to make one bench. It takes 400 pounds of plastic caps to make one bench.
We are going to collect 400 pounds of plastic bottle caps.