Students impress with device to keep bin lids shut
Four Mercy College students have designed a device to stop wheelie bin lids blowing open in stormy weather.
Eimear Kearney ( 16), Elizabeth Fahy ( 15), Rachel Toal ( 16), and Éadaoin Kinsella ( 15) from The Mercy College were finalists of the Foróige Youth Entrepreneur of the Year award 2017 awards at the Mansion House in Dublin with their business, Clip- It Fourteen finalists in all managing seven start- up businesses pitched their products to a panel of expert judges. Clip- It manufactures a device to secure bin lids, and prevent them from opening during windy weather, or by animals. The Mercy girls came up with the idea after noticing the amount of litter that falls out of bins during bad weather, and hearing the banging of wheelie bin lids in a storm.