Phil has bottle to go for Olympic contract gold

Dec 10 2008 by Matt Hurst, Birkenhead News

Phil has bottle to go for Olympic contract gold

A FORMER kitchen fitter from Woodchurch is behind a firm recycling old plastic bottles into kerbstones, with a contract for London’s 2012 Olympics pending.

Phil Sutton has been managing director at Durakerb for four years, and the firm has fitted 50,000 units throughout the UK in that time.

Replacing the traditional concrete product, Durakerb weighs 10 times less and can be fitted four times faster, making economical as well as environmental sense for local authorities.

So far, Durakerb has worked in Cheshire, Kent, Norfolk, Suffolk, the Isle of Man and even the Western Isles of Scotland, among others, and in March fitted their first Wirral street.

Glen Park Road in Wallasey is the only public thoroughfare in the borough to make use of the revolutionary material, which looks no different to regular kerbstones.

Phil, a former Woodchurch High pupil, said: “All the feedback has been very positive.

The company is now developing an environmentally sound product to replace asphalt, a substance commonly used to surface roads.

According to Phil, progress is being made transforming abstracts from old carpet fibre into a form of eco-asphalt.

In the meantime, Durakerb is focusing on securing a contract to install the product at the 2012 Olympics site in east London.