HANOVER TOWNSHIP -- A new restaurant in Luzerne County hasn't even opened its doors yet and it's already recycling.
The owner got some inspiration from a mattress factory just down the road.
Over 1 million beds are born every year at a factory near Nanticoke, but this story is about the humble packaging those materials to make mattresses arrive on.
Building all those box springs leaves Leggett and Platt with a lot of wooden pallets.
"We get pallets from our different customers, the different branches that we have, they bring the pallets in, we have product that is put onto it and we go from there," quality assurance manager John Gunshore explained.
Over the past decade, this facility had cut the waste it sends to the landfill by 80 percent, but now they are trying something new -- using old pallets to decorate a restaurant.
Servers are training to work at Benny's Brewing Company which will be opening its doors next month. The owner got some inspiration for the decor while driving past the plant nearby.
"I would always see the pallets piled up and I thought that would be neat to give it a rustic industrial look inside the brewery," said owner Ben Schonfeld.
Construction workers were skeptical when told to put the old wood up in the brand new brewery but the effect was a hit.
"At the end they all said, well, you were right. It was definitely a good look, and something different that nobody else has," Schonfeld said.
Back at the plant, the crew's looking forward to toasting their old pallets' new life.