Recently, Leo's club has been collecting plastic bags all around the Bay Area. They place boxes indicating donations for used plastic bags that aren’t damaged by water or contaminated by food. They have frequently visited those box locations to bring back. Eventually, they will sort what they collected as a team. They remove any paper or sharpie marks from the plastics. They also discard unwanted trash that people put in their boxes, even though it was clear what the containers were meant for. There have been records of banana peels turning black and bags with water in them. They had to throw away some plastics that would have been perfectly fine because they got wet or dirty.
But where is all of this plastic going towards? How is giving them plastic going to make a difference comparing to throwing it in the recycling bins?
Well, this is to contribute to a bench made from all that collected plastic. The Leo’s Club needs five hundred pounds to create the communitive bench. They currently have two-hundred sixty-five pounds of plastic, halfway through, thanks to all the kind folks that donated.
This is an excellent second use of plastic, instead of having it end in the enormous landfills, or worst, the oceans. It is being put to better use that neighborhoods can benefit from. They can bring people together, like how Tatiana De Leon made bottle caps to create buddy benches. Her mission was to get kids together to have a friend or just someone to talk to. You can read this article to hear more.
Credits:
Digrazia, B. (2019, June 6). Girl collects plastic bottle caps to be turned into benches. AP NEWS. From https://apnews.com/18e0d7a54cb84cd89119c86950761ef8.
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