Ours to Protect Week 2 - Grass Sheets

On this week's Our To Protect, we will look at an environmentally friendly way of making paper.

Tullamore College Students Ryan Plunkett & Cillian Farrell have been busy over the last year trying out new ways of making sheets of paper.

They boiled grass mixed it with a binding agent Okra and used a mould and deckle to make actual paper sheets.

Once, they perfected the sheets of paper, they moved on to other uses for the paper. They are also making wildflower sheet pouches which can just be dropped into the garden.

Midlands 103's Sinead Hubble has been speaking with Ryan and Cillian about their project: