Calling all drinkers!
As part of the run up to Chester Food and Drink Festival 2006 supermarkets, off-licenses, nightclubs, pub landlords and regulars are being asked to collect bottle tops for a 2nd world record attempt. On April 3, 2006, more than 200,000 bottle-tops will be placed in a mosaic at Chester Town Hall as part of a world record attempt that will be accredited by Guinness World Records.
To be part of Chester’s successful world record, organisers are asking anyone in and around the area to drop off their used plastic or metal bottle tops at various collection points around Chester up to and including February 28.
Chester has a population of more than 120,000, according to the 2001 census. If each person collected just three bottle tops over the Christmas period, from bottles that do not have to be alcoholic, the total amount of bottle tops required will be collected and individuals will have the chance of helping in the city’s success.
The pub that collects the most bottle tops will have their logo worked into the mosaic and they also can display the record winning mosaic at their pub for a week after the event. The individual that collects the most bottle tops will win a prize too.
Local school children will be helping to build the mosaic and already the first school involved in collecting the tops is Hoole Church of England Primary & Nursery School. The school which collects the most tops will have their details on the mosaic.
Organiser Russell Kirk said:
“Please donate these bottle tops for such a worthy cause. Last year, the toast mosaic smashed a world record previously held by New Zealand. The 2006 Chester world record attempt will use bottle tops instead of toast which again, will be arranged in an ornate and colourful pattern. The intention is to create a permanent display but all unused tops will be recycled.”
Paul Grady, landlord of The Cheshire Cat, on the A41, Christleton, has already agreed to collect bottle tops and make the pub a collection depot in the area. Frank Marnell, landlord of the Watergate Inn, Watergate Square and chairman of Pubwatch in Chester city centre, has also agreed to a collection depot at his pub but more collection points are needed in and around the city.
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Background
The largest bottle top mosaic stated in the Guinness Book of World Records, was created on October 23, 2003 by students from Akiba Junior High School, Yokohama, Japan and spelt the words ‘Love & Peace’ using 150,480 bottle tops.
The bottle tops will be stuck down onto plywood to form the mosaic. Like the world record achieved earlier this year with the ‘toast mosaic’, the bottle top mosaic will feature the Chester Food & Drink Festival logo.
The dimensions of the attempt are top secret.
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