Pupils at Burrelton Main College are calling on the local people to help their eco-friendly initiative to construct a greenhouse out of empty two-litre clear plastic bottles.
The Perthshire marketing campaign, ‘Bottles for Burrelton’, is being supported by neighborhood retailer Scotmid which has arrange bottle assortment factors at each of its Coupar Angus shops.
The neighborhood are inspired to drop off their empty two-litre clear plastic bottles, which might be recycled and utilized by pupils to assemble their eco greenhouse.
This isn’t the college’s first foray into ‘inexperienced gardening’. Burrelton’s first bottle-built greenhouse was established 15 years in the past by Judith Paterson, the previous PSA for the first college.
Judith was a eager gardener and needed to encourage pupils to become involved with the college backyard. Judith sadly handed away in 2016, however her legacy has lived on as pupils and academics on the major college want to proceed the undertaking in her identify and construct a brand new greenhouse for the backyard.
The brand new construction might be constructed by the youngsters throughout their Eco time, with the assistance of Cat MacKay, a area people employee who helps the college.
Angela Thomson, head instructor at Burrelton Main College, stated: “This undertaking means lots to Burrelton Main College because it encourages our pupils to take care of the atmosphere from an early age.
“We’re grateful to Scotmid for supporting our ‘Bottles for Burrelton ’ marketing campaign by means of its bottle assortment factors in shops and we hope clients will get behind us to assist us attain our goal.”
Lynne Ogg, communities supervisor (North) at Scotmid, stated: “We're thrilled to accomplice with Burrelton Main College on this marketing campaign. This initiative is a superb inspiration to the local people and reveals that repurposing might be a good way to create one thing actually particular and assist educate youngsters completely different strategies of the way to recycle and reuse.”
Bottle assortment factors might be present in Scotmid Coupar Angus shops at: 55-65 George Road, Coupar Angus, Blairgowrie, PH13 9DJ and 1-3 Business Road, Coupar Angus, Blairgowrie, PH13 9AD.