James Payne, 9, from Bayton Primary School, with the eco friendly greenhouse built using two-litre plastic bottles
Families, teachers and pupils of a school on the south Shropshire border have turned 1,500 used plastic bottles into an environmentally-friendly greenhouse.
Bayton Primary School, near Cleobury Mortimer, collected enough clear two-litre bottles to build the eco-structure.
The work was completed this month. The innovative heat-storage system sees the bottles strapped to wooden supports to insulate fruit and vegetables grown by the children.
Teaching assistant Sarah Brown said: “We’ve been told that it will last for up to 10 years and we plan to restart the gardening club at the school next spring, so the children will get a lot of use out of it.”
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