Marmax Products Ltd - Bottles to Benches campaign

Marmax Products Ltd presents a picnic bench to Byker Primary School, Newcastle upon Tyne

Marmax Products Ltd., a leading manufacturer of recycled plastic outdoor furniture, joins with Newcastle City Enviro Schools in a campaign to show plastic recycling in action.
Marmax Products Ltd promised Byker Primary School a picnic bench made from recycled plastic in return for them collecting as many plastic bottles as they could. A collection point was set up at the school and the bottles were then collected ,crushed and baled. These bales were taken to be sorted into the different types of plastic, HDPE and PET. The HDPE plastic was chopped up and melted into agglomerate which looks like breakfast cereal. This was fed into an extruder which melted it again and poured it into moulds in the shape of planks.
 Marmax used these planks to make the smart blue picnic bench being presented to Byker Primary School. The bottle placed in the collection point can now be traced from Byker Primary School back to Byker Primary School having been transformed from a bottle to a bench on its journey. This is known as closing the loop and until that has happened the plastic cannot be considered to be truly recycled. The equivalent of 1000 bottles are needed to make the planks for this junior picnic bench.
The children will now be constantly reminded of how their efforts made this bench possible and will be encouraged to continue collecting and sorting waste for recycling, now that they can see the results. The bench becomes a tangible teaching aid.

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