General Motors Co. is expanding a Detroit recycling program to turn vacant lots into urban gardens.
The Detroit-based automaker is turning 100 steel crates used for shipping engines to Orion Assembly into raised urban garden in vacant parking lots in Highland Park and Detroit, building on an earlier donation of 250 crates that enabled Cadillac Urban Gardens to bloom in Southwest Detroit.
“These urban garden initiatives are proof that many items can have a higher purpose after their original use, whether it’s transforming a once-vacant parking lot or the creative reuse of manufacturing packaging,” said John Bradburn, GM waste-reduction manager, in a release.
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