LAKE DISTRICT WALKWAY MADE FROM RECYCLED PLASTIC BOTTLES
August 1st, 2007
BY MARK ROWE
A BRITISH company is making footbridges entirely out of recycled plastic bottles. In one of the first constructions of its kind Centriforce Products has built a 450 metre boardwalk in conjunction with the National Trust and the Bassenthwaite Reflections Project, (an environmental scheme), from more than 500,000 plastic bottles, to enable walkers in the Lake District to cross a historically slippery stretch of the shore of Derwent Water. According to a Centriforce spokesman, the key benefits are that the reprocessed bottle plastic lasts four times ...
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