HYNDBURN'S four most deprived wards will join the recycling revolution when 6,000 homes are given wheely bins.

The scheme has been funded by £280,000 from the government's Neighbourhood Renewal Fund (NRF) and will provide facilities for more than half of the 9,000 properties in Springhill, Central, parts of Barnfield and parts of Church wards.

It will be launched next month and will be similar to the scheme launched in 6,000 homes across the borough in March, but the bins will be collected weekly rather than fortnightly.

Announcing the initiative, Environment portfolio holder Councillor Ann Scaife showed cabinet colleagues slides of back alleys and streets in the four wards littered with furniture, rubbish, washing machines and builders rubble.

She said: "This is where there are no wheely bins, and the bags are causing a problem. These are the examples of what we are up against and have to deal with."

Council leader Peter Britcliffe said: "It's not because we in Hyndburn don't spend the money on cleansing. If you relate us to other similar sized councils our spending per head is as great or greater than theirs."

Mrs Scaife said the borough was currently recycling 21 per cent of its household waste -- three per cent more than government targets for 2005/06.

She said: "We are well ahead in this area. People want to recycle so if we give them the opportunity to do so I'm sure we will get a lot more on board."

The bins will be collected on a weekly basis instead of the fortnightly collections made elsewhere in the borough.

"That's due to the amount of rubbish there already, and their requests for it, and the money put into it," said Coun Scaife.

The system would be re-assessed at a later date, she said.