Expat puts litter to use with discarded water bottle wall
AN EXPAT resident has taken a novel approach to ridding the countryside of discarded plastic water bottles, but using them to create a “wall”.
Claire Lamb also called on others to do their bit to keep the TRNC clean, by joining in a Keep Tatlısu Clean event this morning.
Mrs Lamb, inspired and helped by friends Kim and Graham McIntyre, decided to put waste to good use in the no-cost wall in the garden at her Esentepe home.
She used wood lying around in her garden to create a frame, bamboo supports she found dumped on roadsides, and old water bottles — joined together with fishing twine — which were collected during local litter-picks and donated by friends and the Sea Breeze bar and restaurant.
Mrs Lamb told Cyprus Today: “I’d seen walls built with the bottles filled with sand then cemented in place, but that would’ve been a bit too heavy duty for what I wanted, so I and my fellow ‘Wombles’ set to on YouTube and Pinterest for other ideas.
“I saw a greenhouse made like my wall, enlarged the picture to get an idea of how to fix the rows and that was it.”
She added: “I now have a couple of other bottlethemed projects lined up, such as a canopy over my patio door to give shade, and garden furniture.”
Urging people to come along with gloves and bags to join in today’s latest Tatlısu clean-up, she said any plastic, tins or glass collected from roadsides, fields and beach would be put into the village’s recycling bins – “unless it can be turned into anything else”. Anyone interested should meet at the Kulaksız 6 site at 9am.