Teenqgers make greenhouse out of bottles

By thepickler | Thursday, March 18, 2010, 07:43

ECO conscious youngsters in Pill have built themselves a greenhouse - out of hundreds of recycled plastic bottles.

Fifteen members of the Pill Resource Centre youth drop in group have been working on the project to build the greenhouse since October.

The teenagers collected 1500 bottles to make the greenhouse, carrying out door to door collections around the village and taking them out of the recycling collection bins.

People who heard about the project also donated empty bottles to the drop in.

The bottles have been threaded onto bamboo canes and then nailed to a wooden frame to make the greenhouse.

It was completed on Saturday and now stands in pride of place at the Cross Lanes allotment.

The allotment association has donated the youth drop in a plot which it will use to house the greenhouse and grow their own fruit and vegetables.

The greenhouse project has been led by drop in youth worker Kirsty Claxton and supported by the Sustainable Pill and District (SPAD) group.

SPAD was set up to promote sustainable activities in the village following a day of action held last year to look at ways residents could help combat climate change.

SPAD spokeswoman, Gill Coleman, said: "It has taken a huge amount of work and effort to make this greenhouse - it has been a real labour of love for the youngsters."

It is hoped that the youngsters will make soup out of the vegetables they grow on the allotments which will be sold at the resource centre.