• Pictured on the bench which could soon be a feature of Ross, Dennis Humble, a competition judge, Peter Martin, competition organiser, Councillor Phil Cutter, and Stephen Morris and Ian Fullingham of British Recycled Products who supplied the bench.

An idea for using an empty pop bottle as storage for precious cups won a local teenager a bench made from 6000 of the recycled drinks bottles.

The youngster with a flair for designing recycled products was the winner of a national competition but rather than keep the prize for himself decided to donate it to the town of Ross.

Two members of staff from British Recycled Products brought the bench from their base in Hebdon Bridge to Ross on Friday, January 29th. Although a final site for the bench has not yet been agreed everyone thought the bench would be a great addition to the street furniture as it is so longlasting and virtually vandal proof.

Stephen Morris of British Recycled Products said the benches are a great way to reuse plastic bottles as it means so many of them do not have to go to landfill.

Peter Martin of Junkk, the recycling website, said:?"I think its great that a youngster would think about other people and decide to donate a prize to the town for lots of people to enjoy."

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