As part of an ongoing campaign by the Catholic Cluster Schools of St. Teresa’s RC Primary School, St. Andrew’s RC Primary School, and St. Joseph’s College the three schools are currently working on building plastic greenhouses, to encourage both healthy eating and recycling. Each of the greenhouses, measuring 6 x 4ft are made out of recycled plastic bottles, with each requiring around 1500 plastic bottles. Already the three schools are collecting bottles successfully and thanks to the generous help and support being offered by the local community, including notably Howies sawmill who are providing the timber, the first Greenhouse is looking likely to be ready to begin construction early in the new term however this is dependent on the volume of plastic bottles collected.

Due to the significant volume of bottles necessary, and in order to make this as community friendly a project as possible, we are to this end encouraging the whole community to start collecting their used plastic bottles. Shanks, who run the Lincluden refuse collection centre have kindly offered, in partnership with Dumfries and Galloway Council, to offer collection facilities for these bottles at their Lincluden Household Waste Recycling Centre until towards the end of August. We would therefore strongly request that, if possible, you collect and deposit your used plastic bottles at this site. The bottles can be of any size (ideally 0.5l, 1l or , preferably, 2l bottles) but should ideally be cylindrical in shape. In the long term, the greenhouses will be built and maintained by the pupils at all three schools offering them a great insight into health and the environment.

Thank-you for any help you can offer.

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