Teenager Neith Absalom was looking for a business idea when he had something of a brainwave.
After discovering that milk-bottle tops weren’t recycled alongside the bottles, he came up with a way for them to be reused.
He started collecting the bits of plastic and melting them down to make skateboards – with the help of a barbecue.
Kea Kids News reporter Elliott Perriam,12, from New Brighton Catholic School, met up with Neith in Christchurch to see how he does it.
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Neith first uses a garden shredder to slice up the bottle tops, then melts them on a barbecue and shapes them into a skateboard deck.
You can check out the full process in the video above.
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Neith Absalom, 15, with one of his bottle-top skateboards.
Also in Kea Kids News, we meet a former Ice Blacks captain who is coaching his daughters in the sport of ice hockey, continuing a family tradition going back almost 100 years.
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