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Chinook Boy Scout J.J. Colby stands amid piles of bags of plastic pop bottles as he puts cut bottles together. Colby is using the bottles to build a greenhouse.
Chinook Boy Scout J.J. Colby cuts a plastic pop bottle to use in constructing a greenhouse. Colby is collecting thousands of plastic bottles, cutting them and building the greenhouse for his Eagle Scout project.
J.J. Colby has collected 2,300 used plastic pop bottles, and he plans to build a greenhouse with them and earn his Eagle Scout badge in the process.
"I am making a greenhouse out of recycled two-liter plastic bottles," Colby said.
Colby said it took him a year to collect all the used bottles and he did it by volunteering at the recycle drive in Havre every third Saturday of the month. People had gotten word he was collecting the bottles and some would bring as many as 50 at a time for him, he said.
The idea for the greenhouse came from someone at the Blaine County Extension Office, Colby said. It will be part of a bigger garden, one built by the local 4-H.
"This came along and it was perfect," he said.
The greenhouse is going to be on the Chinook fairgrounds and the goal is to have it ready by fair time, June 10. The project, Colby said, is part of a bigger goal centering on revamping the Chinook fairgrounds.
"I'm pretty stoked about that," he said.
Though he may have the bottles, they still have to have the bottoms cut off so as to stack onto each other. So far, he has cut 1,000 and he said the project requires 1,500.
The stacked bottles will surround garden stakes.
Colby, who attends Chinook High School, said he wasn't sure about what he wants to do when he is done with school, but he is thinking about politics or journalism.
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