A range of plant pots, made by a Scottish diver who was was dismayed by the amount of waste that he found in the sea, was named the first ever winner of the RHS Chelsea Sustainable Garden Product of the Year Award when the show took place remotely earlier this year.

Ally Mitchell’s Ocean Plastic Pots are made from discarded ropes and fishing equipment, which give the pots their attractive blue/green shades and they were inspired by an incident in 2020 when Ally found himself working as a diver on the salvage of the MV Kaami, which had hit a reef off the west coast of Scotland.

Ally says: The wreck was only 20 km from where a whale with 100kg of plastic debris in its stomach had washed up on Luskentyre beach three month earlier and at the time of the accident the MV Kaami was carrying 1937 tons of shredded plastic.”

An estimated eight million tones of plastic enters the world’s oceans every year.

The pots can be purchased at www.ocean plastic pots.com