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Glasgow Live
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Laura Ferguson

Man's west coast surfing trip inspired him to make first self-watering plant pot in Glasgow

A surfing trip on Scotland’s west coast has inspired the world’s first self-watering plant pot produced from the waste washing up on our shores.

Design engineer and POTR co-founder Andrew Flynn, 31, was shocked to witness the immense scale of the sea debris as he took on the waves off beaches of the Outer Hebrides.

A dawning realisation something needed to be done left him determined to take action, and alongside co-founder Martin Keane, Andrew is now helping clean up the beaches and waters around the world by transforming abandoned ocean waste into a sustainable, self-watering plant pot.

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