PDPlay, the leading designer and manufacturer of environmentally friendly commercial playground equipment for parks, schools, child development centers, communities and the military, announced earlier this month a partnership with TerraCycle, Inc, the pioneer upcycling and recycling company and Old Navy to design, manufacture and install four new playgrounds for the 2011-2012 school year. The playgrounds, donated by Old Navy and TerraCycle, are made from used flip flops collected from Old Navy customers earlier this year during a month-long “Flip Flop Replay” collection drive. The donation recipients are schools in Austin, TX, San Jose, CA, Poughkeepsie, NY, and a fourth that is yet to be selected.

To Poughkeepsie's Tabernacle Christian Academy — one of four schools nationwide to receive a donated playground made, in part, from recycled flip flops collected from Old Navy customers. The recipients of the playgrounds — made by PDPlay, manufacturers of environmentally friendly playground equipment based in Vista, Calif. — were selected through a competitive grant survey held by TerraCycle. The school, located on Academy Street, installed the playground with local volunteers.