A COMPANY that makes waste bottles into interior design will start full scale production in York next week.

Bottle Alley Glass crushes hundreds of discarded glass bottles a day before manufacturing them into kitchen worktops, splashbacks, tiles and other products for use in interior design schemes.

Its Wheldrake factory and showroom will hold an official launch week from June 13 to 19 to trade and members of the public.

The glass is fused, cut, polished, sandblasted and laminated at the Wheldrake factory to create different colours and effects for tiling, glass inserts, lighting features and bespoke designs to sell to interior designers, architects, fabricators and members of the public.

Managing director Alan Ashbee said the bottles, which are seconds from bottling companies that would otherwise go for landfill, are crushed, put into trays and spread by hand to make sure they are flat and even before being fired in a purpose built kiln. The kiln produces a large sheet of glass which is then cut and finished.

“He said: “Glass lends itself well to recycling and the processes we use makes the most of the different coloured glass we recover, otherwise destined for landfill, to create unusual and eye catching designs.”