Photos credit:  Surrey County Council

Three hundred steps at Box Hill have been refurbished to encourage better sustainable access.  

The steps which cross the steep hillside linking the Stepping Stones path to the summit have been excavated and rebuilt thanks to over £53,000 of funding.  The steps were originally installed by volunteers in the 1980s but had become eroded.

The new steps have been constructed using around 15 tons of recycled plastic which has been manufactured from 7,731,360 million milk bottle tops. 

The work took three months with much of the construction being done by hand rather than machinery due to the challenging location of the steps.