What can I buy?

You can purchase Rubbish Snooker canvases (made of recycled plastic bottles), personalised gifts, rescued upcycled items, and plastic-free phone cases.

How are the canvases made of recycled plastic bottles?

Rubbish Snooker eco canvases are made using polyethylene terephthalate fibres from recycled plastic bottles stretched across sustainably sourced wooden frames.

What are the rescued products?

These are items that were destined for landfill but, instead, have been turned into unique Rubbish Snooker art. For example, this wheel trim clock.

How do I send my own photos to be used in ring-pull frames?

For personalised gifts, simply send your four photographs and captions by email, Dropbox, or WeTransfer to personalised@rubbishsnooker.com.

How do I book a workshop?

For schools, complete this form. For home education, this form. You can also get in touch about adult groups.

What is Milk. Eggs. Bread.?

A collection of 500 discarded, handwritten shopping lists each given a humorous story. It is best enjoyed on desktop.

Where do you get the lids and ring-pulls?

Approximately 75% are littered and the rest are upcycled by friends and family. I regularly pick litter and have taken thousands of bottles and cans away from streets, green spaces, and wildlife.

What happens once you finish a piece?

I take a photograph of the artwork while up a ladder (borrowed from my neighbour) and create a video walking around the table for Instagram. It is these photographs that are printed on the canvases. I then dismantle it all and the lids go back into boxes according to colour and size (obviously).

Why do you do it outside?

It was my childhood dream to own a pool or snooker table. However, like most people, I do not have the room in my house so purchased a full-size pool table specifically designed for external use in the garden.

Does the weather get in the way?

The table has sat there in sunshine, rain, hail, and snow. Believe it or not, I have been more sunburnt and bitten by mosquitos in the name of Rubbish Snooker than while playing for my village cricket team, making me possibly the only snooker player to wear sunscreen. The most frustrating element is wind which often sends lids flying down the pockets, only for them to appear deep inside the table months later.

Do you actually ever play snooker on the table?

I adore cue sports but must admit I do forget this is the table’s primary function. My biggest break is 62 and I beat Shaun Murphy once. Sort of.