THEY'VE bin wheelie excited at one Blackpool school!

Pupils at Boundary Primary School, Dinmore Avenue, were joined by Blackpool South MP Gordon Marsden and Blackpool Councillor Fred Jackson to launch the second phase of the borough's "green" wheelie bin pilot scheme.

Ten thousand householders in Bispham and Grange Park have now got a new wheelie bin for recycling vegetable waste.

And the scheme's second phase will soon roll out to homes in the Stanley Park area. Residents can expect to see leaflets outlining the scheme dropping through their letterboxes in the next fortnight.

Pupils at Boundary School were chosen by Gordon Marsden MP to help launch the new phase because year five pupils have been learning all about composting as part of an allotment project.

Under the wheelie bin scheme, the public are asked to put biodegradable waste such as vegetable and fruit peelings, tea bags, stale bread, grass cuttings and dead flowers in the new bins, which are then collected fortnightly.

According to the council the pilot scheme has so far been a success.

Coun Jackson, Blackpool Borough Council's portfolio holder for the urban environment, said: "We expected to get about 120 tonnes in the first 11 days of collections. However, we have been surprised and delighted that the figure is actually 150 tonnes, which is 30 tonnes more than anticipated."

He added: "More than half of Blackpool's rubbish can be recycled to produce compost that Alan Titchmarsh would be proud of.

"Gardeners and young people know the value of recycling and thankfully the rest of us are realising that reducing our landfill rubbish is a vital part of looking after our environment."