Clean Up Our Planet and Make Something Practical? How About a Bench with 30,000 Plastic Bags?!

This Adorable Mini Bench is made from 20,000 discarded plastic bags!

Eco-Plastic Products Turns Plastic Waste into Furniture.

Today’s Podcast features Eco-Plastic Products of Delaware, a non-profit project that is literally cleaning up our planet one ( or 30,000) plastic bag at a time. This small group of dedicated ‘recyclers’ collects discarded plastic and transforms it into outdoor benches, tables, garden boxes and more. The nonprofit organization is sustainable by selling their furniture which also enables them to channel proceeds to support other like-minded community projects. I had the chance to speak with Marketing Director Stephanie Albertini about how they operate, click below to listen to the podcast:

 

Find Out More about How it’s Done

You can learn more about how Eco-Plastic Products use their magical machines – a densifier, granulator and exactractor to make furniture, using tons of discarded plastic and saving our landfills and oceans from debris at https://www.ecoplasticproducts.org/

One more photo to go – this picnic table/bench used up more than 60,000 discarded plastic bags!