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Draft & Flow Community Bike Workshop founder, Nick, visited Glasgow Wood in April 2023 to pick up a rather large order of ex-Hunterian Museum archive drawers which we collected via our Waste Wood Collections Service. 8 months later, he's transformed them into a beautiful set of workshop storage units for organising tools and bike parts.

Glasgow-based artist Tinsel Edwards created a beautiful series of pieces for her degree show utilising ex-Hunterian Museum archive drawers. See the paintings and learn about what's next for her practice.

Glasgow School of Art graduate Susan Breckenridge up-cycles drawers from the Hunterian Museum & Gallery to display all the treasured memories and artefacts of her childrens' lives.

Via our wood collections service, we worked with EventCycle to collect waste wood from COP26 back in 2021. When Scottish Libraries contacted us in early summer 2023 to produce some peg boards, we had just the material for the job! Learn about the full transformation here.

Take a look at the full journey of some raised bed planters and wood collections made from COP26, as the students at Hillhead High School transform them into potato planters.