Building Glasgow's rubbish church

14 March 2012 Last updated at 13:15 ET By Huw Williams BBC Scotland reporter

It's been called Grand Designs meets Scrapheap Challenge.

But for me it's more like what could have happened if Stig of the Dump or Uncle Bulgaria had been ministers of the Kirk.

Colston Milton Parish Church is fund-raising, to put up a new building and community centre. Nothing too unusual about that, you may think. But it's going to be built of recycled rubbish.

To be specific: four tonnes of beer cans; a dozen redundant shipping containers; 300 industrial pallets; and 500 used car tyres.

But they're starting small.

There's something deeply right that in God's economy nothing - from people, to time, to materials, to resources - is wasted

Work is starting on the first building that'll go up on the site - an "energy awareness hub".

It'll be based in two containers - the sort of thing that's used to ship goods around the word.

They've reached the end of their useful life, and were due to go for scrap. But they're finding a new life - perhaps been born again? - hosting a small exhibition on how to reduce your carbon footprint.

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Building Glasgow's rubbish church