The World's Biggest Drinks Can Sculpture on Monday
Following on from the famous largest Toast Mosaic in the World in 2005 and the massive Bottle Top Mosaic last year, organisers are planning to top the records again with another huge undertaking next Monday to mark the beginning of the Chester Food & Drink Festival 2007.
On Monday March 26, 2007, 15,000 drinks cans will be worked into a gigantic sculpture outside Chester Town Hall as part of a world record attempt. Chester’s biggest Drinks Can Sculpture will feature a huge waterfall flowing down the Town Hall steps into a pond that will incorporate some very unusual fish. Thirty schools and 1,000 children from in and around Chester have been collecting cans and will be involved in constructing the sculpture, which is being made in sections. Prizes will be awarded to the schools, pubs and restaurants that collect the most cans. So far, Dee Banks School in Sandy Lane, Chester have collected the most cans, with more than 600. Each school will create a colourful can fish, which will be placed into the pond.
A vital part of the project is to promote re-cycling and highlight reducing consumption. Pupils from Hoole All Saints Primary School, Hoole Lane, Hoole have been collecting cans and last week visited Ball Packaging Europe Ltd in Wrexham to learn more about the process of making and recycling cans.
Organiser Russell Kirk said:
“The 2007 Chester record attempt on Monday will use all sorts of drinks cans joined together to form the sculpture on the Town Hall steps – the biggest start to the Food Festival yet. The project also gives us the opportunity to promote recycling in a fun way, all of the cans we collect and use will be recycled helping Chester towards it’s target of 30 per cent. Schools, pubs and cafes around Chester have collected thousands of cans to help out with the sculpture. Out in front at the moment is Dee Banks School with more than 600 cans. However our biggest ‘Can Donator’ has to be Wrexham based Ball Packaging Europe UK Ltd who have pledged 6,000 cans to the cause. Add to this 5,000 from Chester City Council’s re-cycling team and the grand total soars to nearly 15,000 cans. The sculpture will be there for only a day so make sure you get along on Monday to see it and in the meantime collect those cans.”
For more information about other events happening over the Chester Food & Drink Festival please visit www.chesterfoodanddrink.com.
Chester’s Food and Drink Festival is organised on behalf of Chester City Council with support from the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA), Visit Chester & Cheshire; the tourism board for Cheshire and Warrington, Cheshire County Council, Made in Cheshire, North West Fine Foods and the Rural Recovery Fund.
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