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Projects

Be Active! Be Green!
Recycling Bench Initiative

Active Living Ramsey Communities! is working together with the Saint Paul – Ramsey County Department of Public Health: Environmental Health Section and Ramsey County Parks and Recreation to provide a series of bench corridors throughout Ramsey County. The corridors will provide a "community path to health, one step at a time" to create a physical environment to encourage walking. The benches are to be placed in a visibly continuous corridor so people are able to see the next bench—with the thought that seniors, people with a disability or small children can more easily make it to the next bench. Benches are made from recycled plastic and promote recycling throughout Ramsey County.

Read newspaper article from Star & Tribune: The key to more walking? More places to sit.

Mission

Active Living Ramsey Communities! will facilitate the placement of benches made of recycled materials in a series of corridors connecting destinations and creating loops throughout the County.

Vision

The Be Active! Be Green! Recycling Bench Initiative will help to create a physical active friendly environment by facilitating "pathways to health," which will especially help the elderly, people with physical disabilities, and people with small children.

Objective

By the end of 2015

Use the remaining dedicated funds to create pathways that promote physical activity by placing benches on trails, in parks, or on corridors that connect destinations.
Place benches throughout all geographic areas of Ramsey County.
Strengthen the participation in the Be Active! Be Green! Recycling Container Project, Active Living Ramsey Communities! Initiative, and Go Ramsey Communities! Recreational Web Portal.