A BRAND new recycling group is urging local people with recycling ideas to get in touch.

The Agenda 21 Recycling Group is producing a local recycling directory to help to encourage everyone in the Lancaster district to reduce, re-use and recycle more of their unwanted goods, materials and other resources that would otherwise go to landfill.

This local 'hands on' guide will put local people and organisations with unwanted items in contact with others which collect them for re-use or recycling.

Alison Page, Project Director of Furniture Matters and chairperson of the Local Agenda 21 Recycling Group, said: "We want to know if anyone in this area collects things like mobile phones, wine corks, fabrics or milk bottle tops for recycling and wants to be included in the booklet.

"Our aim is to help make recycling so easy and automatic that it blends into the flow of everyday life.

After all, if someone else out there wants it, then it is not really waste!"