Yellowstone National Park is working with Dalton, Ga.-based Universal Textile Technologies to recycle plastic bottles generated by the park's 3.5 million annual visitors. Universal Textile is converting the bottles into material for carpet and synthetic turf products.

Yellowstone National Park turns plastic bottles into artificial turf

April 19, 2011

Yellowstone National Park is working with Dalton, Ga.-based Universal Textile Technologies to recycle plastic bottles generated by the park’s 3.5 million annual visitors. Universal Textile is buying the recyclable plastic bottles that Yellowstone visitors discard each year and converting them into material used to manufacture carpet and synthetic turf products.