Every year, tons of plastic from artificial flowers end up in landfills after Memorial Day. At CHI Mercy Hospital in Council Bluffs, a small team of volunteers is doing something different with them.
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Mercy Hospital volunteers upcycle cemetery flowers for community
For more than 50 years, hospital volunteers have been refurbishing and reselling artificial flowers collected from St. Joseph Cemetery.
“Oh, yeah, plastic is forever, ” said Cathy Frieze, who has been a volunteer for most of the 50-plus years that hospital volunteers have been upcycling the artificial flowers…