NEW Order once did a song called "Everything's Gone Green": and thousands of bogus CDs are now going the same way.

Trading standards inspectors have teamed up with a recycling firm to destroy pirated music in an environmentally-friendly way.

The first batch of seized counterfeit CDs, DVDs and video cassettes to face this destiny were handed over in Bury on Wednesday to Scrap Plastic Solutions.

Instead of dumping them in landfill sites, the company specialises in recycling the plastic and making products such as buckets, goldfish bowls and bird feeders.

Bury's trading standards team has recently raided a number of premises with police seizing thousands of CDs and equipment suspected of being counterfeit or used to produce counterfeits.

The new recycling campaign is being run across the region by the Trading Standards North West intellectual property group.

Councillor Stella Smith, executive member for environment and transport, said: "The piracy of multimedia goods such as CDs and computer games has a damaging impact on local and national trade and we have been working hard with a variety of agencies to tackle the issue across the borough.

"However, the success of this type of action has left us with thousands of goods to dispose of and I am delighted that the TSNW group has come up with this idea."