Your generous donations have reached 700,000 bottle tops, of which the latest 100,000 were kindly removed and bagged by Maghull Town Council grounds team. Enabling me to transport the eight large bin bags today to their regular destination at Neston High School on the Wirral, where the ingenious and inspiring children’s art and design team have created bespoke equipment to recycle the plastic into national scientific award-winning artefacts. We are enormously grateful for the community donations and for the small part we have all played in their incredible success.

Rainbow the Rhinoceros is an endearing receptacle for plastic bottle tops, situated on Stafford Moreton Way (leading up to Morrisons), to highlight plastic recycling and endangered wildlife and was created as part of the Friends of Maghull & District’s (FOMD) Stafford Moreton Way Eco-Educational Project. Maghull High School and Southport Art College have used the donated bottle tops to make stunning and uplifting public mosaics, displayed on Stafford Morton Parade (near Morrisons) entitled – ‘Keep the Sea Plastic Free’.

Award-Winning

However, most of the hundred thousand full capacity bottle tops are transported to the modern Neston High School in the Wirral, where they have contributed to the school winning several awards, in each of the last three years including a prestigious national STEM education award. The award is given to the education establishment that has excelled in the provision of a first-class environment for teaching stem subjects, including ‘science, technology, engineering and maths’.

The inspiring teachers Mr Patrick Link and Mr Colin Cooper (design and technology teachers) have along with their students excelled in recycling plastic bottle tops donated by our community, into a variety of beautiful and practical artefacts. They have developed machines to help the creative process. Firstly, cleaning and sorting, then shredding so they can be melted into bespoke moulds. Not only is the physical outcome outstanding but the educational outcome within the school and in their outreach work has been unrivalled.

Their passion is irresistible and incredibly motivational, whilst always looking for the next fascinating and captivating challenge to create meaningful engaging change.

Full Background to SMW Project: https://www.fomd.co.uk/stafford-moreton-way/

Pictures: Patrick with a full agricultural bag of donated bottle tops that was delivered by FOMD on Thursday (30.4.26), a small sample of the recycling outcomes and receiving their awards in London.

Huge thanks to one and all,

Friends of Maghull & District (FOMD)

Together Making Maghull a better place to live.

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