recycled plastic benches

Business man recycling paper and tossing it into a blue recycle bin. More of this activity is encouraged as part of America Recycles Day

Tues., Nov. 15 is America Recycles Day and while vast improvements have been made in how households recycle, there is still much to be done in the workplace and at facilities. But the process can be as easy as adding a few recycling receptacles and then getting buy-in from people in your

These plastic bottles don't need to be here - they can become recycled plastic picnic tables and any number of products

Happy Earth Day fellow Earthlings! How will you honor the Earth this year? Recycling, cleaning up litter or writing to your congressmen are all a good start. But there's an essential part of going green that many people overlook: supporting recycling efforts by buying recycled products that range from recycled plastic picnic tables to paper for your copy machine.

The key to recycling is the reuse of our natural resources. That process starts with gathering recyclable materials. Offices and homes across America take the extra effort to have special recycling bins for paper, plastic, aluminum, glass, and other materials. They

The Park Catalog is donating part of sales of recycled plastic benches and other products to the Everglades Foundation for Earth Da

Many people think the Everglades covering the southern half of Florida is nothing more than a massive swamp filled with alligators, mosquitoes and Burmese pythons. But it's so much more. And there are groups such as the Everglades Foundation doing their best to protect this precious and unique ecosystem.

Here are a few important  and interesting facts about this unique land mass compiled by the Everglades Foundation and other sources:

- The Everglades are more than just Everglades

Demand is high for recycled plasti

When it comes to saving the planet and using products made with recyclables such as plastic picnic tables and plastic benches, there's good news and there's bad news.

First the good news. Chalk this one up to American ingenuity.  Manufacturers in the past decade have become very, very adept at creating high-quality products using old milk jugs, soda bottles, bottle caps, plastic bags, etc.

Some of those products included plastic picnic tables, plastic benches, pipes and even spun plastic fibers to make clothing.

Promote recycled products such as plastic picnic tables at schools, stores and parks to raise awareness

Offering plastic picnic tables and plastic benches made with recycled materials for use by the public can be one of the keys to promoting conservation in your town.  Rather than just talk about the benefits of recycling, you can walk the talk and show the real, tangible rewards of green living.

If you look on the web at various governmental programs to promote recycling, most of them focus on promoting the concept of recycling.

For example, with the Municipal Government Toolkit from the US Department