Sun Products Corporation headquartered in Wilton, Connecticut and a leading North American provider of laundry detergent, fabric softeners and other household products sold under well known brands that include all®, Snuggle®, Sun®, Wisk®, Surf®, and Sunlight®, has built a playground construction from roughly 50,000 Sun Products plastic (HDPE#2) laundry containers recycled and saved from landfills. The playground is located at the Trumbull, Conn. Nature and Arts Center.

The project is part of Sun’s Recycling FULL CIRCLE Playground initiative.  Company associates and local citizens volunteered for the one-day community build installing the playground, assembling benches and picnic tables and spreading 16 tons of engineered wood mulch for safety surfacing. Volunteers have delivered nearly 2,000 in-kind service hours to the Town.

“True sustainability aligns environmental stewardship and good citizenship resulting in sustained good for the greater community,” commented Craig Slavtcheff, Senior Vice President, Research and Development, The Sun Products Corporation in a recent press release. “The FULL CIRCLE Playground initiative demonstrates Sun Products’ commitment to give back to the communities where our associates live and work. Trumbull is the home of our soon-to-open North American Technology Center and is an important strategic partner in our company’s long-range vision for growth and business excellence. By providing enhanced recreation resources to Trumbull we are demonstrating our shared commitment to community and sustainability.”

According to the press release, as a part of the FULL CIRCLE Playground initiative, 3,400 Trumbull elementary school children are engaging in non-traditional learning activities through an in-school recycling program. The recycling program invites children to bring laundry and household “HDPE#2” plastic containers to school during the fall semester. The plastic collected will be transported to Chicago-based Tangent Technologies and extruded into sustainable lumber for additional site amenities at the Trumbull Nature and Arts Center and for future FULL CIRCLE Playgrounds.

In addition, the release noted that Sun Products has received national recognition from Take Pride in America®, the nationwide partnership program authorized by Congress to promote the appreciation and stewardship of our nation’s public lands for its FULL CIRCLE Playground initiative. Take Pride in America’s Executive Director, Lisa Young commented, “Take Pride in America® is proud to support The Sun Products Corporation in the FULL CIRCLE Playground initiative and shares their commitment to engage citizen stewards in environmental sustainability while encouraging children and families to spend more time outdoors.”

Filed under: Corporate Responsibility, Good Green Stuff, Recycling