TWO old school-friends from Stroud have launched a sustainable resin driveway company.
Rich Fletcher and Brian Wright, who met on their first day at Maidenhill School in Stonehouse, aged 11, are heading up a Gloucestershire branch of Oltco.
The firm designs and installs resin driveways. Among the Oltco range is an innovative product called Recycle Bound, which is made from waste plastic straws, plastic drink bottles and plastic food packaging.
Each square metre of Recycle Bound consists of the equivalent of 3,000 plastic straws. Since Recycle Bound’s launch in January 2019, Oltco has used the equivalent of over 22 million plastic straws in driveways, paths and patios across the UK.
As part of Oltco Gloucester’s commitment to the environment, alongside offering Recycle Bound to the area, Rich and Brian will be offsetting their environmental impact by joining the Carbon Footprint scheme with five per cent of their profits going towards planting trees.
See: oltco.co.uk
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